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Re: Fix altivec vector return location
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:23:31 +0200
- Subject: Re: Fix altivec vector return location
- References: <je4pomo280.fsf@sykes.suse.de> <20070410204629.GC2056@caradoc.them.org>
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 06:17:51PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> powerpc-linux is not using -mabi=altivec by default, thus vector types are
>> returned in general registers instead of altivec registers.
>>
>> Andreas.
>>
>> 2007-03-15 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
>>
>> * ppc-linux-tdep.c (ppc_linux_return_value): Vectors are returned
>> in general registers.
>
> Hmmm... but what about people who do use -mabi=altivec?
I have no idea how to detect that.
Andreas.
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