Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 14:36:25 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Bug (?) in GCC - discarded struct returns
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On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> I've found a problem with GCC that I don't know whether to describe as a bug
> or just compiler stupidity. The problem is that when calling a function
> returning a struct several times and ignoring the return value, space is
> allocated on the stack for *each* of the ignored structs.
[snip]
> Turning on optimizations has no effect on this problem (except that -O3 or
> -finline-functions make it a lot harder to see). Unless someone can think of
> a justification for this inefficiency, I'm going to report it to GNU. 

Please do report this to GNU.  Thanks.