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From: Raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
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Subject: Re: structure return/passing
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Date: 28 Feb 90 16:25:18 GMT
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   Date: 27 Feb 90 23:00:10 GMT
   From: uci-ics!rfg@ORION.OAC.UCI.EDU  (Ronald Guilmette)

   Calling sequences are *highly* machine dependent, and thus, there may
   be a bug in this area that affects only the machine that you are using.

And compiler dependent!  On the vax, depending on the compiler used
(and whether -fpcc-struct-return is used with gcc), structure returns
are done two different ways, and gdb has no way of knowing which a
given routine will do, unless perhaps the symbol table information is
different, which I doubt....