> I have a question about the TARGET_PROMOTE_PROTOTYPES macro. This macro > says that types like short or char should be promoted to ints when > passed as arguments, even if there is a prototype for the argument. > > Now when I look at the code generated on MIPS or x86 it looks like there > is conversion code in both the caller and the callee.
We used to to the same on SPARC 32-bit, see PR target/46208. -- Eric Botcazou
