February 18, 2013
On 2/18/2013 12:59 PM, Maxim Fomin wrote:
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> 2013/2/18 Walter Bright <walter@digitalmars.com <mailto:walter@digitalmars.com>>
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>     On 2/17/2013 1:59 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
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>         By the way Johannes, the issue is clear I think.  You can't make
>         temporaries with non-POD structs?  This is something gdc is a bit
>         zealous in doing this around a lot of the code generation.  So
>         addressing that would certainly fix problems around the
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>     Whenever you make a copy of a non-POD value, you have to (for example)
>     build an exception handling frame to destruct it if, in the meantime, an
>     exception is thrown. This is not only expensive, but it doesn't work if
>     the value lives in registers.
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> What a coincidence.  I hit today issue http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8563 Are you implying that temporaries of POD structures are impossible?

No. I'm asserting that non-POD values:

1. cannot be put in registers

2. are expensive to make temporaries of, because all the exception safety stuff has to be added



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