Dave Korn wrote:
Well, it's only gcc for which we can be absolutely sure it's a no-op. It
might be important to other compilers for all we know.
The last architecture I'm aware of where it would make a difference was the old HP-3000 16-bit stack architecture (obsolete since 1986), where the arguments were laid out in the wrong order. (And it's way too old and obsolete to have a gcc port, anyway :-/).
Normally, args on such architectures are laid out such that the first argument is at a known (negative) offset from the stack frame base, and the others have increasing (negative) offsets. The HP-3000 was *ss-backwards, in that the first argument had the largest negative offset, with each succeeding argument having a smaller negative offset, so you had to go through incredible calisthenics to support varargs..
Max: keep looking for those nitpicky errors, though - the next one may be significant..
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