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authorKazu Hirata <kazu@codesourcery.com>2007-01-18 19:54:44 +0000
committerRichard Sandiford <rsandifo@gcc.gnu.org>2007-01-18 19:54:44 +0000
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gcc/ 200x-xx-xx Kazu Hirata <kazu@codesourcery.com> Richard Sandiford <richard@codesourcery.com> * doc/tm.texi (TARGET_FUNCTION_VALUE): Expand documentation of parallels. * calls.c (expand_call): If the return value is a PARALLEL, extract its first member. * config/m68k/linux.h (FUNCTION_EXTRA_EPILOGUE): Remove. * config/m68k/m68k.c (m68k_output_function_epilogue): Don't use FUNCTION_EXTRA_EPILOGUE. (m68k_function_value): Return a PARALLEL if the return value is of a pointer type. * config/m68k/netbsd-elf.h (current_function_returns_pointer) (FUNCTION_EXTRA_EPILOGUE): Remove. * config/m68k/m68k.md (D0_REG): New constant. Co-Authored-By: Richard Sandiford <richard@codesourcery.com> From-SVN: r120929
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@@ -4107,7 +4107,12 @@ place regardless of mode.) The value of the expression is usually a
@code{reg} RTX for the hard register where the return value is stored.
The value can also be a @code{parallel} RTX, if the return value is in
multiple places. See @code{FUNCTION_ARG} for an explanation of the
-@code{parallel} form.
+@code{parallel} form. Note that the callee will populate every
+location specified in the @code{parallel}, but if the first element of
+the @code{parallel} contains the whole return value, callers will use
+that element as the canonical location and ignore the others. The m68k
+port uses this type of @code{parallel} to return pointers in both
+@samp{%a0} (the canonical location) and @samp{%d0}.
If @code{TARGET_PROMOTE_FUNCTION_RETURN} returns true, you must apply
the same promotion rules specified in @code{PROMOTE_MODE} if