[LLVMdev] Plans considering first class structs and multiple return values

[Florian Weimer]

* Duncan Sands:

> right, there's an ABI difference.  Also you can't return variable sized structs
> using MRV support (I don't know if gcc really supports this, but some pieces of
> code inside gcc mention functions returning variable sized objects).

At one point, the MIPS back end supported returning variably-sized
structs with an elevated stack pointer (the goal was to remove the need
for Ada's secondary stack), but that has been removed since then.