From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26753 invoked by alias); 1 Sep 2004 18:07:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 26737 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2004 18:07:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO igw2.watson.ibm.com) (129.34.20.6) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 1 Sep 2004 18:07:47 -0000 Received: from sp1n293en1.watson.ibm.com (sp1n293en1.watson.ibm.com [129.34.20.41]) by igw2.watson.ibm.com (8.11.7-20030924/8.11.4) with ESMTP id i81I5GM110402; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 14:05:16 -0400 Received: from makai.watson.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sp1n293en1.watson.ibm.com (8.11.7-20030924/8.11.7/8.11.7-01-14-2004) with ESMTP id i81I7bS52204; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 14:07:37 -0400 Received: from watson.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by makai.watson.ibm.com (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0/03-06-2002) with ESMTP id i81I7ZO35222; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 14:07:36 -0400 Message-Id: <200409011807.i81I7ZO35222@makai.watson.ibm.com> To: Stan Shebs cc: Bill Northcott , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: GNU libobjc on Darwin In-Reply-To: Message from Stan Shebs of "Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:23:58 PDT." <413605AE.7070602@apple.com> References: <595C6EAE-FB09-11D8-ABDF-000393D3D676@unsw.edu.au> <413605AE.7070602@apple.com> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:07:00 -0000 From: David Edelsohn X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg00060.txt.bz2 >>>>> 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