PATCH: Fix 2 PPC/SYSV varargs problems

Zack Weinberg zack at rabi.columbia.edu
Fri Apr 30 12:55:36 EST 1999


On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 19:48:17 -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 02:09:09AM +0200, Franz Sirl wrote:
>> 1. the varargs save area calculation bug, this is a hack and Richard ;-) 
>> probably won't like it, but maybe it's good enough for egcs-1.2
>
>You're right -- I hate it.  You'll have made it so I can't build a
>ppc cross compiler on my Alphas, and you'll have killed the compiler
>for a ppc64-linux.

ObDumbQuestion: Is this a bug we really need to fix for 1.2?  It's
been around for awhile and all the proposed solutions are either dirty
kludges or too invasive.

zw

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