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A bug seems sometimes to occurr when passing a alrge structure as an argument. 
For example the following does not suceed on a Sun4 under gcc 2.1 or 2.2.2,
at any optimization level.


struct a {int b[7];};

void f(struct a x)
{
  int i;
  for (i=0; i < 7; i++)
    printf("%d\t",x.b[i]);
  putc('\n');
}

main()
{
  struct a y;
  int i;
  for (i = 0; i < 7; i++)
    y.b[i] = i;
  f(y);
}

Under gdb, the argument passed to f appears as 

(gdb) next
17        f(y);
(gdb) print y
$1 = {b = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}}
(gdb) step
f (x={b = {285216903, 8252, 8256, -16777207, 9, -16777207, -132531200}})
    at test.c:6
6         for (i=0; i < 7; i++)

Is this a known problem? Is there a fix?

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		Steve Linton