[PATCH] [MIPS] fix extension of integer types (function calls)

[Petar Jovanovic]

In http://reviews.llvm.org/D9198#161802, @dsanders wrote:

> This shouldn't be a problem but it is an uncomfortable discrepancy with our _documented_ ABI which says that 32-bit integers are always sign-extended to GPR-sized integers. I put the underbars around 'documented' because the available documentation isn't completely reliable as a statement of how things are actually implemented. I discussed it with Matthew Fortune (one of the current GCC maintainers for Mips) at the time and as far as we could tell, the truth of the matter is that unsigned integers are passed zero extended by the caller in all cases. I also ran a few hundred thousand randomized ABI tests and couldn't produce any failures running mixtures of clang-compiled and gcc-compiled code.


IIRC from a recent discussion, unsigned 32-bit int are represented in a 64-bit register as sign-extended value of the 32-bit value (i.e. bit 31 is copied through the top half). So, the caller has to make sure the value is correctly represented before making a call, right?


http://reviews.llvm.org/D9198

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