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Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes: |> Andreas Schwab wrote: |> > Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes: |> > |> On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 10:29:55PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: |> > |> > |> Adding __attribute__((sane_x86_64_varargs)) to makecontext and make gcc |> > |> > |> promote all varargs into DImode when calling vararg functions with |> > |> > |> this attribute? |> > [...] |> > How does that help in any way? If you pass an unsigned int to |> > makecontext it is not supposed to be signed extended, but zero extended |> > when assigned to long. There is no way for va_arg to know that. |> |> What part of "function attribute" do you not understand? The compiler cannot know what type of va_arg call are used inside makecontext. And what if you pass a long long where sizeof (long long) > sizeof (long)? The whole thing is just ill-defined. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
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