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Re: will multi-register returns get fixed?
- From: David Mosberger <davidm at napali dot hpl dot hp dot com>
- To: Jim Wilson <wilson at tuliptree dot org>
- Cc: davidm at hpl dot hp dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 23:49:49 -0700
- Subject: Re: will multi-register returns get fixed?
- References: <16096.59034.889883.830972@napali.hpl.hp.com><3EE18611.1040303@tuliptree.org>
- Reply-to: davidm at hpl dot hp dot com
>>>>> On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 23:28:33 -0700, Jim Wilson <wilson@tuliptree.org> said:
Jim> Your testcase is the degenerate case where each structure field
Jim> is exactly one register. Maybe we could have special purpose
Jim> code to handle this efficiently, but the general case would
Jim> still be badly broken. And I don't know offhand what to do to
Jim> fix this degenerate case.
Yes, supporting the special case of 1 field/register would help a
great deal.
Thanks,
--david