Subject: Re: RETURN_IN_MEMORY
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
List: port-arm
Date: 08/29/2002 09:54:27
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 07:42:19PM +0100, Chris Gilbert wrote:
>
> > One question, is this going to change/break any ABI's? I suspect not, but just a thought, and wanted to be sure.
>
> No, everything in the NetBSD tree, at least, should be okay. But it's
> gotta be fixed before 1.6 goes out the door.
Even if it did break the ABI, it has to be fixed. Otherwise you can never
safely return a variable sized struct of more than 16 bytes without
trashing saved registers.
R.