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@rjmccall rjmccall commented Aug 2, 2016

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Resolved bug number: (SR-)

rdar://26828018


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This allows us to freely pass the address of a variable of such
types to a C function without worrying about it overwriting other
things if e.g. it memcpy's sizeof(T) bytes and thus clobbers the
otherwise-non-existent tail padding.

There are ways to get this optimization back, but they require
things like materializing to a temporary instead of passing the
address directly. We haven't done that work yet, so we don't
get to take advantage of it.

rdar://26828018

This allows us to freely pass the address of a variable of such
types to a C function without worrying about it overwriting other
things if e.g. it memcpy's sizeof(T) bytes and thus clobbers the
otherwise-non-existent tail padding.

There are ways to get this optimization back, but they require
things like materializing to a temporary instead of passing the
address directly.  We haven't done that work yet, so we don't
get to take advantage of it.

rdar://26828018
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rjmccall commented Aug 2, 2016

@swift-ci Please smoke test.

@rjmccall rjmccall merged commit c1c1fe6 into swiftlang:master Aug 3, 2016
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
// CHECK-64: ==============

// CHECK-64: - __C.MyCStruct:
// CHECK-64: Size: 17
// CHECK-64: Size: 24
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This needs changes in CHECK-32 mode as well.

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Yeah, I've updated it, thanks.

@rjmccall rjmccall deleted the sizeof-imported-structs-includes-tail-padding branch August 3, 2016 18:11
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