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From: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
To: janis187@us.ibm.com
Cc: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>,
	        Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com>,
	gcc@gcc.gnu.org,         libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: C++ support for decimal floating point
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC2E19C.7060901@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1254255810.6078.26.camel@janis-laptop>

On 09/29/2009 04:23 PM, Janis Johnson wrote:
> The PowerPC 32-bit ELF ABI says that a struct is passed as a pointer
> to an object or a copy of the object.  Classes are treated the same
> as classes.  Does the C++ ABI have rules about classes like
> std::complex that would cause them to be treated differently?

No.  Classes that are trivially copyable (such as complex) are passed 
according to the C ABI, which is suboptimal for many popular architectures.

Jason

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID
From: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: C++ support for decimal floating point
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC2E19C.7060901@redhat.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20090930071700.HEhNGTU8P7BpiI0MQqBPXBqOiHD4fiHHp2Ne8r41rs8@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1254255810.6078.26.camel@janis-laptop>

On 09/29/2009 04:23 PM, Janis Johnson wrote:
> The PowerPC 32-bit ELF ABI says that a struct is passed as a pointer
> to an object or a copy of the object.  Classes are treated the same
> as classes.  Does the C++ ABI have rules about classes like
> std::complex that would cause them to be treated differently?

No.  Classes that are trivially copyable (such as complex) are passed 
according to the C ABI, which is suboptimal for many popular architectures.

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-30  4:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-23  0:38 Janis Johnson
2009-09-23  8:29 ` Richard Guenther
2009-09-23 21:12   ` Janis Johnson
2009-09-23 21:21     ` Richard Henderson
2009-09-29 20:23       ` Janis Johnson
2009-09-29 20:50         ` Richard Henderson
2009-09-29 20:51           ` Janis Johnson
2009-09-29 21:19             ` Richard Henderson
2009-09-23 21:27     ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2009-09-23 23:23       ` Janis Johnson
2009-09-23 23:40         ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2009-09-29 20:37           ` Janis Johnson
2009-09-30  4:47             ` Jason Merrill [this message]
2009-09-30  7:17               ` Jason Merrill

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