Bug?

Gary Benson gbenson at redhat.com
Tue Oct 16 06:29:05 PDT 2007


steve goldman wrote:
> Gary Benson wrote:
> > I'm looking at hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/signature.hpp from b22.
> > Is line 285 really correct?
> 
> for the current platforms, yes. On 32bit sparc and any x86 floats
> aren't passed in registers so they can be treated like int (I
> refuse to go look at the ia64 abi). No doubt it would be cleaner
> here to make the abstract code here use float/double to let the
> implemenation decide what to do.

I had to change this for PPC32 as they're passed in registers there.
I guess I'll end up patching the other platforms once my stuff goes
into IcedTea or wherever.

Cheers,
Gary



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