On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 03:00  PM, Krister Walfridsson wrote:

>> No, we need to fix the ABI issue that *actually exists* in 3.3.1.
>> Krister was going to look at it a while ago, but I haven't heard from
>> him in a while.
>
> Well, mrg told me that the ABI issue were just a header-file problem, 
> and
> no real ABI issue.  So I did not investigate any further...

There was some email on port-powerpc or port-macppc (check the 
archives) that clearly pointed to an ABI issue -- confusion about 
pass-by-value and pass-by-reference.  Someone even had a test program 
for it.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>