From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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
Message-id: <19971004182611.49177@dot.cygnus.com>
References: <199710030335.UAA16564@cygnus.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.971004223621.400F-100000@penguin.home>
X-SW-Source: 1997-10/msg00194.html

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~