https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112653
--- Comment #11 from Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Jan Hubicka from comment #8) > On ARM32 and other targets methods returns this pointer. Togher with making > return value escape this probably completely disables any chance for IPA > tracking of C++ data types... Note 'this' is "escaped" anyway since it points to incoming memory. Improving handling of 'return' really _only_ helps function-local allocated storage, _nothing_ else. Which is why it wasn't priority at all as it didn't look to be enabling any (important) transforms.