Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265161AbUFATew (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:34:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265162AbUFATew (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:34:52 -0400 Received: from pimout1-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.77]:25011 "EHLO pimout1-ext.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265161AbUFATev (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:34:51 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 12:34:44 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mikael Pettersson , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6.6-rc3] gcc-3.4.0 fixes Message-ID: <20040601193444.GA24136@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <200404292146.i3TLkfI0019612@harpo.it.uu.se> <16572.38987.239160.819836@alkaid.it.uu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 645 Lines: 17 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/