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Re: more changes

To: Geoff Keating <geoffk@ozemail.com.au>
Subject: Re: more changes
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 26 Oct 1998 11:31:16 +0100
Cc: drepper@cygnus.com, libc-hacker@cygnus.com
References: <r2iuhdv877.fsf@happy.cygnus.com> <199810220642.QAA24419@geoffk.wattle.id.au>

Geoff Keating <geoffk@ozemail.com.au> writes:

|> I sent a message explaining this more fully to Ulrich, but in short:
|> 
|> - Fortunately, there is little benefit to inlining syscalls on ppc, but:
|> - if you did want to do it on ppc, you would need to know the types of
|>   parameters to each function, in particular pread and pwrite :-(

You can use __builtin_classify_type to get type information from the
compiler.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de                      completely different"
schwab@gnu.org

References:
- more changes
  - From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
- Re: more changes
  - From: Geoff Keating <geoffk@ozemail.com.au>

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