Re: [PATCH][2.6.6-rc3] gcc-3.4.0 fixes

From: Chris Wedgwood
Date: Tue Jun 01 2004 - 14:36:20 EST


On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:27:16AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> And even function pointers should be safeish. The fact that some
> broken architecture (can you say "ia64"?) has totally idiotic
> calling conventions and requires the caller to load the GP value is
> _their_ problem.

ia64 function pointers are actually pointers to the 128-bit
descriptors so all pointers are still 64-bit.


--cw
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