Re: [PATCH 08/62] target/arm: Create GetPhysAddrResult

[Richard Henderson]

On 8/10/22 06:02, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> writes:
>
> > Combine 5 output pointer argument from get_phys_addr
> > into a single struct.  Adjust all callers.
>
> This looks to be an improvement - I guess the real benefit is the
> compiler isn't jamming so many closely aligned pointers on the stack
> frame for all the return values?

Correct.  The number of parameters is also down to 6, which fits all in register arguments 
for most hosts, including x86_64.   And in turn, we need to copy fewer arguments down to 
the subroutines.


r~