Re:Facil.io: A micro-framework for C web applications
by tom_mellior on Sunday January 27, 2019 @10:12AM
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> I would pass by reference.
Interesting. I expected taking the address of a struct literal to be illegal, but GCC and Clang both accept it. It does make sense, I guess.
But may I ask why you would pass it by reference? With old ABIs, the struct would be passed on the stack (i.e., by reference) anyway, and with more recent ones, a small prefix would be in registers but the rest passed by reference as well. So why bother manually cluttering the code?
Interesting. I expected taking the address of a struct literal to be illegal, but GCC and Clang both accept it. It does make sense, I guess.
But may I ask why you would pass it by reference? With old ABIs, the struct would be passed on the stack (i.e., by reference) anyway, and with more recent ones, a small prefix would be in registers but the rest passed by reference as well. So why bother manually cluttering the code?