[PATCH] D58514: Avoid needlessly copying blocks that initialize or are assigned to local auto variables to the heap

[Erik Pilkington via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

erik.pilkington added a comment.

In D58514#1429606 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D58514#1429606>, @rjmccall wrote:

> There is no way in the existing ABI for copying a block to cause other references to the block to become references to the heap block.  We do do that for `__block` variables, but not for block objects themselves.


Do you think thats worth doing? We could add a forwarding pointer to the end of a block literal on the stack (after all the captures) and flip an unused bit to track it, preserving ABI. Seems like now that we're delaying `_Block_copy`ies this might be a bigger issue.


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