Subject: Re: EGCS 1.1 UPDATE rev. 2
To: None <richard.earnshaw@arm.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 08/19/1998 10:41:15
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Richard Earnshaw wrote:

: The compiler cannot compile libc's softfloat.c in the way that it was 
: written (it exploited a bug in gcc 2.7 to return a structure that was 
: larger than 32 bits in a register) -- I'm working on a fix for this, but 
: haven't completed it yet.

Hm.  The suggestion about "unsigned long long" may be useful; of course, the
problem there is knowing which 32 bits are the high and low ones (though you
could make the assumption, since the software is in libc/arch/arm32).

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)