[LLVMdev] Structs as first class values.

[David Greene]

On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:23, Chris Lattner wrote:
> On Jul 23, 2008, at 3:31 PM, David Greene wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 July 2008 15:16, Chris Lattner wrote:
> >> On Jul 23, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:
> >>> Again, there is a many to one mapping from C type to LLVM type and
> >>> not all C types that map onto the same llvm type are supposed to be
> >>> handled the same way.
> >>
> >> One concrete example is that some ABIs say that _Complex double is
> >> returned differently than struct { double r,i; }.
> >
> > Yes, that's a good point and something I had been missing.
> >
> > I know that the divide between responsibilities of frontends and
> > backends is an endless debate.  I tend to side with those who
> > advocate for putting as much of the target-specific stuff into the
> > backend as possible.
>
> I totally agree, but don't know the right way to do it.  Lets talk
> about this in person next week!

Ok.  I'll do some hard thinking about this before then.

                                          -Dave