From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14489 invoked by alias); 4 Oct 2003 22:29:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 14482 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2003 22:29:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dair.pair.com) (209.68.1.49) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Oct 2003 22:29:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 56446 invoked by uid 20157); 4 Oct 2003 22:29:47 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Oct 2003 22:29:47 -0000 Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 22:29:00 -0000 From: Hans-Peter Nilsson X-X-Sender: hp@dair.pair.com To: Eric Botcazou cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: __builtin_apply questions In-Reply-To: <200310041134.09578.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00139.txt.bz2 On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Eric Botcazou wrote: > Firstly, the docs contain these sentence for __builtin_apply_args: > > The function saves the arg pointer register, structure value > address, and all registers that might be used to pass arguments to > a function into a block of memory allocated on the stack. Then it > returns the address of that block. > > What is the "structure value address"? Is it a typo for "return value > address"? Should be "structure value return address", the address used when returning structures seemingly by-value but using a caller-provided caller-allocated address for the area. brgds, H-P