makecontext and its arguments
Jakub Jelinek
jakub@redhat.com
Mon Aug 5 13:19:00 GMT 2002
On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 10:15:06PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
>
> |> Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> |> > That interpretation of long causes problems for x86-64 since ints are
> |> > not sign extented when passed in varargs...
> |>
> |> How about fixing this mistake in the compiler with a function attribute?
>
> ??? There is no way to find out the right type in va_arg. Either the
> types match, or you get undefined behaviour. If you pass an int and
> retrieve it as a long all bets are off.
Adding __attribute__((sane_x86_64_varargs)) to makecontext and make gcc
promote all varargs into DImode when calling vararg functions with
this attribute?
Jakub
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