Inline assembler in D and LDC, round 2
Frits van Bommel
fvbommel at REMwOVExCAPSs.nl
Thu Feb 5 04:47:11 PST 2009
Walter Bright wrote:
> Frits van Bommel wrote:
>> Is it really that hard? Can't you just detect this case (non-void
>> function without a 'return' at the end but with inline asm inside)?
>>
>> Since the compiler should know the calling convention[1], the register
>> that will contain the return value of the function should be a simple
>> lookup (based on target architecture, cc and return type).
>> Just add that register as an output of the inline asm and return it...
>
> dmd doesn't attempt to figure out which register is the return value. It
> just assumes that the registers specified by the ABI for the function's
> return type have the proper return value in them.
That isn't an option for LDC, which is why I suggested another approach.
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