From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
To: Kamil Iskra <iskra@student.uci.agh.edu.pl>
Cc: Jim Wilson <wilson@cygnus.com>, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: complex support on alpha
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 1997 18:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19971004182611.49177@dot.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971004223621.400F-100000@penguin.home>
On Sat, Oct 04, 1997 at 10:58:44PM +0200, Kamil Iskra wrote:
> Richard Henderson says that on Alpha the real and imaginary parts should
> be passed as two completely separate arguments. Is this how it should work
> on any other target?
Most ABI's don't mention compex values at all. Probably the right
thing to do on systems that don't is to treat the tuple as a struct.
To some extent, that is what gcc looks like it is trying to do. I
don't know that it gets it right all the time, though.
r~
prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-10-04 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-01 21:03 Weiwen Liu
1997-10-01 22:34 ` Richard Henderson
1997-10-02 9:22 ` Weiwen Liu
1997-10-02 10:46 ` Richard Henderson
1997-10-05 16:16 ` Weiwen Liu
1997-10-05 18:28 ` Richard Henderson
1997-10-02 20:35 ` Jim Wilson
1997-10-04 14:33 ` Kamil Iskra
1997-10-04 18:29 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
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