>>>>> Joslwah  writes:

Joslwah> Looking at the Linux 32bit PowerPC ABI spec, it appears to me that
Joslwah> floats in excess of those that are passed in registers are supposed to
Joslwah> be promoted to doubles and passed on the stack.  Examing the resulting
Joslwah> stack from a gcc generated C call it appears they are passed as
Joslwah> floats.  

Joslwah> Can someone confirm/refute this, or else point me to an ABI that says
Joslwah> that they should be passed as floats.

        I have not been able to find any motivation for promoting floats
passed ont the stack.  Does this provide some form of compatibility with
SPARC?

David

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