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David Majnemer d2f767d2f6 [X86] Support cleaning more than 2**16 bytes of stack
The x86 ret instruction has a 16 bit immediate indicating how many bytes
to pop off of the stack beyond the return address.

There is a problem when extremely large structs are passed by value: we
might not be able to fit the number of bytes to pop into the return
instruction.

To fix this, expand RET_FLAG a little later and use a special sequence
to clean the stack:

pop  %ecx     ; return address is now in %ecx
add  $n, %esp ; clean the stack
push %ecx     ; bring the return address back on the stack
ret           ; pop the return address and jmp to it's value

llvm-svn: 262755
2016-03-04 22:56:17 +00:00