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Hello,

I've just installed gcc 2.4.5 on a SS2 with SunOS 4.1.2 and am very
happy with its performance! Some of my significant code speeds along
at about 40% faster than with bundled cc.

But... The reason I got gcc was to make an existing project become
more ansi compliant as opposed to K&R.  My problem is this:

K&R (at least bundled cc) passes structures by reference even if
the syntax indicates otherwise.

Ansi passes structures by reference or value depending on the syntax.

No compiler I've found will tag instances where structures (possibly
typedefs) are passed by value. Ive also tried lint.  I can't simply
convert the 60K+ lines to prototypes and compile ansi to find the
problems because the VAST majority of calls are through function
pointers within typedef'd C objects and so prototypes are no help.

My thaught was that gcc -Wtraditional would point out the instances
where (in error) structures are passed by value.  It does not.
Can anyone tell me why, or what I'm doing wrong?  Other gcc flags?
Other tools?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Ken Land
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