>>>>> Joslwah writes:
Joslwah> Looking at the Linux 32bit PowerPC ABI spec, it appears to me that
Joslwah> floats in excess of those that are passed in registers are supposed to
Joslwah> be promoted to doubles and passed on the stack. Examing the resulting
Joslwah> stack from a gcc generated C call it appears they are passed as
Joslwah> floats.
Joslwah> Can someone confirm/refute this, or else point me to an ABI that says
Joslwah> that they should be passed as floats.
I have not been able to find any motivation for promoting floats
passed ont the stack. Does this provide some form of compatibility with
SPARC?
David