Status of 2.5.X kernels on PPC Linux, anyone working with NPTL?

[Kevin B. Hendricks]

Hi,

>> - missing support for small structure return values in register pairs
>> r3, r4
>
> I thought support for this already in place, but gcc had the wrong
> endianness in the registers.  If this is so, I already have a patch
> for this (not commited though ;-)).

According to my tests small structure returns in registers are not
currently being used for PPC Linux (32 bit) for gcc 3.2.1 and earlier
(and never have been AFAIK) but I can not speak for
the 3.3 tree and later.

Kevin


** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/