Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:47:14 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Jan Hubicka <hubicka AT ta DOT jcu DOT cz>
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Subject: Re: Regparm patch.
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On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Jan Hubicka wrote:

> > Rather than replacing all the .S files with .c files, please add
> > macros to some global asm macros file to access the parameters, like
> > ARG0, ARG1, etc, for as many args as you need.  Or, use conditional
>
> I was thinking about this originally, problem is that making such macros
> is quite complex. For example when arg0 is in register, movl ARG0, %eax
> will result in movl %eax, %eax and thats not very nice.

What about conditionals?  IMHO, it's still better to use some ifdef's
than rewrite every .S file in sight.  The de-stabilizing effect of a
complete rewrite frightens me.