Re: -freg-struct-return?

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Sometimes returning small structures is really nice.  If you can pass
> them in registers, it's often generates the fastest possible code;
> much better than using a pointer. 

Yes, but specifically, are there any pieces of assembler which return
structures?  It appears there are none (since Ingo got a booting
kernel), but there might be something obscure in some corner.

    J
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