Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jun 2004 12:34:44 -0700 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2.6.6-rc3] gcc-3.4.0 fixes |
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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.
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