Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> I've tried to write a program that shows this, but didn't succeed.
> The program I come up with (based on your description) is available at
> [1], output on ILP32 (NetBSD/i386) is in [2], output on LP64
> (NetBSD/alpha) is in [3]. Obviously they are the same, so I must have
> missed something. What is it?
> 
> I think it would be useful to have a smallish piece of code that we can
> point people at and say "look, differences between architectures if you
> use K&R"...

I think you should try separate compilation. In the version you
provided, gcc has lots of chances to cheat, which would be impossible
otherwise.

A second issue is the argument passing ABI. Does the alpha ABI use a
stack for "simple" arguments or are they passed in registers?

Roland