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Re: [patch] Pushing Inferior Function Arguments onto Stack on PowerPC64 machines


On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 03:10:56PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 03:00:34PM -0400, janani@linux.ibm.com wrote:
> > I am new to this, so my interpretation might not be completely  
> > accurate, but the way I read the note below ( a snippet from the GNU  
> > GCC Manual about passing function arguments in registers) is that  
> > since PPC64 is big endian, even though the default is to pad downward  
> > (i.e. right align), if the size if greater than the size of an int,  
> > you need to pad upward (left align).
> 
> You're trying to answer the wrong question :-)

By the way, your From address (janani@linux.ibm.com) is not valid;
could you fix that?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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