[dmd-internals] What does POD imply for backends

[Maxim Fomin]

2013/2/18 Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com>

>
> On 2/17/2013 1:59 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>
>>
>> By the way Johannes, the issue is clear I think.  You can't make
>> temporaries with non-POD structs?  This is something gdc is a bit zealous
>> in doing this around a lot of the code generation.  So addressing that
>> would certainly fix problems around the
>>
>>
> Whenever you make a copy of a non-POD value, you have to (for example)
> build an exception handling frame to destruct it if, in the meantime, an
> exception is thrown. This is not only expensive, but it doesn't work if the
> value lives in registers.
>
>
What a coincidence.  I hit today issue
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8563 Are you implying that
temporaries of POD structures are impossible?
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