On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, David Miller wrote: > > Arguably using a union here would make things cleaner and any reasonable > > ABI will place small unions used as arguments or return values in > > registers, but I'm not sure if the cost of the rewrite is worth the > > Well, sparc 32-bit's ABI for one is "not reasonable" and these return > values will always get stack slots and passed back by reference.
So that makes it two -- together with MIPS o32. ;) Still used by everybody concerned as contraptions tend to stick. :/ That doesn't make it reasonable though. Nor me to push the union approach -- that's an elegant approach that would probably give us less than take in return. Maciej _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
