Duncan Sands 6c25ca4f2b When passing a parameter using the 'byval' mechanism, inline code needs to be used ...

to perform the copy, which may be of lots of memory [*].  It would be good if the
fall-back code generated something reasonable, i.e. did the copy in a loop, rather
than vast numbers of loads and stores.  Add a note about this.  Currently target
specific code seems to always kick in so this is more of a theoretical issue rather
than a practical one now that X86 has been fixed.
[*] It's amazing how often people pass mega-byte long arrays by copy...

llvm-svn: 118275

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