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RE: Question concerning function calls and pointers in Whirl

To: <benedict.gaster@xxxxxx>, <pro64-contrib@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Question concerning function calls and pointers in Whirl
From: "Benedict R. Gaster" <benedict.gaster@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:08:01 +0100
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In-reply-to: <BGEFKPBJFFMJEBBKAGGGAEJFCAAA.benedict.gaster@st.com>
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> Here here the argument to the Whirl node VCALL is still U4PARM, as
expected,
> but its type now has a size of 8 bytes, rather than 4!

I think it should have read "alignment" not "size", as looking in the symbol
table (-st) this seems to be the difference. Does this mean that function
arguments are getting 8 byte aligned? If so is it possible to stop this?

thanks for any help,

ben.


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