Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:39:04 -0800 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: -freg-struct-return? |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Sometimes returning small structures is really nice. If you can pass > them in registers, it's often generates the fastest possible code; > much better than using a pointer.
Yes, but specifically, are there any pieces of assembler which return structures? It appears there are none (since Ingo got a booting kernel), but there might be something obscure in some corner.
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