From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: libI77 fmt uncleanliness
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 12:00:09 -0000
Message-ID: <199708301342.JAA07516@rio.atlantic.net>
In-reply-to: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 22:06:24 -0700"
X-SW-Source: 1997-08/0805.html
Message-ID: <19970830120009.k1ojE6BVfIBUtTSGVOD2EzEFolu8JqKM9b1AZPw9wcI@z>

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Henderson  writes:

 Richard> I77's fmt.h defines struct syl as
 Richard>      struct syl { int op, p1, p2, p3; }

 Richard> and then goes off and does things like

 Richard>      *(char **)&sp->p2 = s + 1;

 Richard> which is broken for 64-bit hosts.

We normally pass on basic problems with libf2c exposed by g77 use to
the excellent f2c maintainer so I've done that for comment.  (I don't
think the g77 frontend has any knowledge of such things; burley
probably can't currently read this due to the GNU notwork.)