[LLVMdev] Support for Aggregate Return Values

[Kenneth Uildriks]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 10, 2009, at 8:26 PM, John Criswell wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> How well does the LLVM code generators support returns of structure
>> types in LLVM 2.6?  I'm currently writing a transform that requires
>> functions to return multiple values and am thinking implementing it by
>> changing the function to return a struct.
>>
>> If it matters, I'm currently targeting 32-bit Linux and Mac OS X for
>> x86.
>
> returning aggregates with up to two elements will work reliably.
>
> -Chris
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An update to support arbitrary-sized struct returns is awaiting final approval.