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From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
To: Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>
Cc: Bill Northcott <w.northcott@unsw.edu.au>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNU libobjc on Darwin
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409011807.i81I7ZO35222@makai.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>  of "Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:23:58 PDT." <413605AE.7070602@apple.com>

>>>>> Stan Shebs writes:

Stan> I kind of volunteered to figure this one out at some point. We use
Stan> the extra argument to behave differently for the first field of a
Stan> structure, but it's not so clear whether it's critical or just a
Stan> leftover from old days.

	The special behavior for the first first of a structure is due to
ABI compatibility.

David

      reply	other threads:[~2004-09-01 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-31  5:04 Bill Northcott
2004-08-31 15:27 ` David Edelsohn
2004-09-01  0:36   ` Bill Northcott
2004-09-01  1:16     ` Mike Stump
2004-09-01 17:23 ` Stan Shebs
2004-09-01 18:07   ` David Edelsohn [this message]

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