byval in a world without pointee types

[Reid Kleckner]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:57 AM, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Rafael Espíndola <
> rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Long term I would love to remove byval and sret. With inalloca the
>> outgoing frame is explicit a the IR and we just have loads and stores.
>>
>> A short term idea would be to add just the size to the byval. That
>> should be sufficient, no?
>
>
I like this idea!


> I was going to agree - but poking around, it looks like we need alignment
> too, at least (not sure if we need other things beyond size & alignment,
> nothing springs to mind but I don't know much about this stuff) -
> TargetLoweringBase::getByValTypeAlignment/DataLayout::getABITypeAlignment
>

Nope, we don't, we have an align attribute. =D
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