On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Todd Whitesel wrote:

: > Actually, probably nothing detailed.  Richard Earnshaw and I were talking
: > about it in private mail.  Basically, gcc 2.7 was returning 64-bit struct
: > typedefs in two registers instead of on the stack.
: 
: That sounds like the correct behavior to me; why did you originally refer to
: it as a 'bug' ?

Well, most platforms I've seen prefer types > register_t to go on the stack.

: The GNU compiler for 68k has traditionally returned 8 byte structs in D0+D1.

m68k is a glowing exception.  :>

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