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To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> said:

[...]

> Another thought I had was wrapping things in structures for both small
> and large, even UP systems so proper typechecking is enforced at all
> times. That would probably need a great deal of arch sweeping to do,
> especially as a number of arches are UP-only (non-SMP case's motive #2).

AFAIU, gcc doesn't put structures in registers (even when they fit).
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