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Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 11:07:44 -0400
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: russcox@gmail.com, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] return vlong
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that's on the 386. other architectures may return the value
in one or two registers.

On Fri May 20 11:01:27 EDT 2005, russcox@gmail.com wrote:
> a call to a function that returns a vlong or structure
> passes an invisible (to the c programmer) first argument
> that is a pointer to somewhere to write the return value.
> so the following two functions have equivalent assembly
> (but different c types):
> 
> vlong
> return0(void)
> {
>     return 0;
> }
> 
> void
> return0(vlong *v)
> {
>     *v = 0;
> }
> 
> russ