structure function returns -- how?

[Chris Torek]

In article <782 at dg_rtp.UUCP> meissner at dg_rtp.UUCP (Michael Meissner) writes:
>If the compiler returns structures by having the caller pass a pointer to
>an area that is copied into, then for the second example [in which the
>return value is ignored], the compiler does have to create a temporary
>(preferably a stack temp...) and pass it's pointer.

Alternatively, the compiler can pass a nil pointer, and generate code to
recognise such in structure-valued functions.

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