From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: ABI compatibility regression: Return values on x86
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18307.33118.456533.834701@zebedee.pink> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080107210457.GA10004@lucon.org>
H.J. Lu writes:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:32:08PM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> >
> > So, what now? Can we even agree about what the psABI actually says
> > about sign-extending result values? Was what we did before correct,
> > or what we do now? I don't believe that it doesn't matter.
>
> You can follow up with this thread in ia32 psABI discussion group:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/ia32-abi/browse_thread/thread/f47e0106b21d9269
Thanks for the reference. The attitude there looks surprisingly
complacent, but if Intel and gcc x86 maintainers agree that it doesn't
matter I suppose I'll have to defer to the weight of opinion.
Andrew.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-08 13:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-07 18:32 Andrew Haley
2008-01-07 21:05 ` H.J. Lu
2008-01-08 13:58 ` Andrew Haley [this message]
2008-01-08 14:13 ` H.J. Lu
2008-01-08 14:21 ` Andrew Haley
2008-01-08 14:36 ` H.J. Lu
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