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Re: Returning structures
- To: geoffk at cygnus dot com (Geoffrey Keating)
- Subject: Re: Returning structures
- From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:10:38 +0000 (GMT)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> Does anyone know of any ABIs which do not have this requirement? I am
> wondering if this should be left conditional or removed altogether.
For a number of embedded targets we actually define the ABI.
And I think it is on average of more benefit to avoid copying structures
around than to be certain that there is no aliasing.