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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