function-return

The tracking issue for this feature is: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/116853.

Option -Zfunction-return controls how function returns are converted.

It is equivalent to Clang's and GCC's -mfunction-return. The Linux kernel uses it for RETHUNK builds. For details, see LLVM commit 2240d72f15f3 ("[X86] initial -mfunction-return=thunk-extern support") which introduces the feature.

Supported values for this option are:

• keep: do not convert function returns.
• thunk-extern: convert function returns (ret) to jumps (jmp) to an external symbol called __x86_return_thunk.

Like in Clang, GCC's values thunk and thunk-inline are not supported.

Only x86 and non-large code models are supported.