From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Martin von Loewis <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: hasdi@umich.edu
Cc: amylaar@cygnus.co.uk, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: g++/i386: 4-byte inline struct return
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 02:04:00 -0000
Message-id: <199809180725.JAA00544@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <Pine.SOL.3.95.980917102141.1482A-100000@stargate.rs.itd.umich.edu>
X-SW-Source: 1998-09/msg01044.html

> I'll try this when I get back home. I think gcc should return struct
> values in registers anyway (ignoring -fpcc-struct-return) if the caller
> and callee can follow the same struct-return convention (i.e. inline and
> static functions). Is there a fallacy in my thinking?

The problem is that the ABI is already defined, caller and callee will
not follow the same convention if one of them is changed now, and the
other is in a library that we have no control over.

Regards,
Martin