From khb@Eng.Sun.COM Wed Jan 29 20:59:09 1997 Received: from venus.Sun.COM (venus.Sun.COM [192.9.25.5]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id UAA09227 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 20:59:06 +0100 Received: from Eng.Sun.COM ([129.146.1.25]) by venus.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6/mail.byaddr) with SMTP id LAA09212; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:57:10 -0800 Received: from chiba.eng.sun.com by Eng.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-5.3) id LAA27638; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:57:07 -0800 Received: from chiba by chiba.eng.sun.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA04286; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:57:05 -0800 Message-Id: <199701291957.LAA04286@chiba.eng.sun.com> To: James Cownie cc: malcolm@nag.co.uk (Malcolm Cohen), hennecke@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, mpi-bind@mcs.anl.gov, sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.1282) PASS_BY("descriptor") In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Jan 1997 19:12:20 GMT." <199701291917.UAA09119@dkuug.dk> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:57:05 -0800 From: Keith Bierman QED >vendors has yet leapt up in the way that you have also hints that No, it may mean we're busy or we agree with malcom ;> Note that changing the way this works (dope vs. nondope) breaks binary compatibility on a given platform, and impacts other products in the environment (e.g. the debugger). Always using a dope vector can extract a performance penalty on some platforms.