[LLVMdev] promotion of return value.

Rafael Espindola
Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:49:28 -0000

>> 1) The return value promotion will be removed from llvm backend and
>>   implemented in both front-ends (clang and llvm-gcc)
>>
>> 2) The promotions are only applied to the return value in the body
>>   of the function.
>>   Return value of function definition and declaration will not be
>> promoted

You might want to look at bug http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=3779.

If I understand what you are proposing, it is exactly the opposite of
what gcc does, which would be annoying for someone trying to link gcc
and llvm compiled code.

Cheers,
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Rafael Avila de Espindola

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