Re: [MiNT] how to compile stik/sting stuff with gcc4

[Henk Robbers <h.robbers@chello.nl>]

Vincent Rivière wrote:
> Henk Robbers wrote:
>
> > How does GCC behave?
>
>
> GCC never pushes bytes on the stack.
> char and shorts are extended to int before being pushed.
>
> So if a function takes a char as first argument, in the callee it is 
> located at 7(sp) by default (32-bit ints), or 5(sp) with -mshort (16-bit 
> ints).

Thanks.
In that case I will not change AHCC in this respect.

Note that AHCC and Pure C put the first 3 integral arguments in data 
registers.

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