Date:	Mon, 17 Apr 2000 19:27:37 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Dieter Buerssner <buers AT gmx DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: inefficiency of GCC output code & -O problem
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On 17 Apr 2000, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

> >GCC has such a feature as well.  Read the on-line GCC manual about the 
> >"-mregparm" switch, for details.
> 
> Certainly, gcc has such a feature. But it is (almost) unusable.
> When you call the library, the program will stop working.

Some code (like texture mapping ;-) doesn't call library functions.

> Recompiling
> the library won't help, because of the asm code.

Somebody submitted patches to make the library mregparm-compatible, but 
the patches need work.  Volunteers are welcome.

> Other compilers circumvent the library problem by __cdecl or
> equivalent keywords in the header files.

GCC has such keywords as well.

> (This will not avoid all problems, though.

Exactly.

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