On Aug 3, 2007, at 9:22 AM, Rafael Espindola wrote:
> The attached patch implements code generation of byval arguments on
> the callee. For now only the case were the struct is in the stack is
> handle correctly.
I think this patch is looking very good. As it can only affect
things marked 'byval', please feel free to commit what you have.
As a next step, it would be good to implement passing of a struct
into a call by-val.
-Chris
> With the patch, the function
> ---------------------------------------------------
> %struct.s = type { i64, i64, i64 }
>
> define i64 @f(%struct.s* byval %a) {
> entry:
> %tmp2 = getelementptr %struct.s* %a, i32 0, i32 0]
> %tmp3 = load i64* %tmp2
> ret i64 %tmp3
> }
> ------------------------
> Correctly compiles to
>
> f:
> movq 8(%rsp), %rax
> ret
>
> There is still a lot to implement and debug, but I would like to know
> any comments one might have.
>
> Cheers,
> --
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