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diff --git a/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/builder/autodiff.rs b/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/builder/autodiff.rs
index 71705ecb4d0..0147bd5a665 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/builder/autodiff.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/builder/autodiff.rs
@@ -3,12 +3,14 @@ use std::ptr;
 use rustc_ast::expand::autodiff_attrs::{AutoDiffAttrs, AutoDiffItem, DiffActivity, DiffMode};
 use rustc_codegen_ssa::ModuleCodegen;
 use rustc_codegen_ssa::back::write::ModuleConfig;
-use rustc_codegen_ssa::traits::BaseTypeCodegenMethods as _;
+use rustc_codegen_ssa::common::TypeKind;
+use rustc_codegen_ssa::traits::BaseTypeCodegenMethods;
 use rustc_errors::FatalError;
+use rustc_middle::bug;
 use tracing::{debug, trace};
 
 use crate::back::write::llvm_err;
-use crate::builder::SBuilder;
+use crate::builder::{SBuilder, UNNAMED};
 use crate::context::SimpleCx;
 use crate::declare::declare_simple_fn;
 use crate::errors::{AutoDiffWithoutEnable, LlvmError};
@@ -18,14 +20,264 @@ use crate::value::Value;
 use crate::{CodegenContext, LlvmCodegenBackend, ModuleLlvm, attributes, llvm};
 
 fn get_params(fnc: &Value) -> Vec<&Value> {
+    let param_num = llvm::LLVMCountParams(fnc) as usize;
+    let mut fnc_args: Vec<&Value> = vec![];
+    fnc_args.reserve(param_num);
     unsafe {
-        let param_num = llvm::LLVMCountParams(fnc) as usize;
-        let mut fnc_args: Vec<&Value> = vec![];
-        fnc_args.reserve(param_num);
         llvm::LLVMGetParams(fnc, fnc_args.as_mut_ptr());
         fnc_args.set_len(param_num);
-        fnc_args
     }
+    fnc_args
+}
+
+fn has_sret(fnc: &Value) -> bool {
+    let num_args = llvm::LLVMCountParams(fnc) as usize;
+    if num_args == 0 {
+        false
+    } else {
+        unsafe { llvm::LLVMRustHasAttributeAtIndex(fnc, 0, llvm::AttributeKind::StructRet) }
+    }
+}
+
+// When we call the `__enzyme_autodiff` or `__enzyme_fwddiff` function, we need to pass all the
+// original inputs, as well as metadata and the additional shadow arguments.
+// This function matches the arguments from the outer function to the inner enzyme call.
+//
+// This function also considers that Rust level arguments not always match the llvm-ir level
+// arguments. A slice, `&[f32]`, for example, is represented as a pointer and a length on
+// llvm-ir level. The number of activities matches the number of Rust level arguments, so we
+// need to match those.
+// FIXME(ZuseZ4): This logic is a bit more complicated than it should be, can we simplify it
+// using iterators and peek()?
+fn match_args_from_caller_to_enzyme<'ll>(
+    cx: &SimpleCx<'ll>,
+    builder: &SBuilder<'ll, 'll>,
+    width: u32,
+    args: &mut Vec<&'ll llvm::Value>,
+    inputs: &[DiffActivity],
+    outer_args: &[&'ll llvm::Value],
+    has_sret: bool,
+) {
+    debug!("matching autodiff arguments");
+    // We now handle the issue that Rust level arguments not always match the llvm-ir level
+    // arguments. A slice, `&[f32]`, for example, is represented as a pointer and a length on
+    // llvm-ir level. The number of activities matches the number of Rust level arguments, so we
+    // need to match those.
+    // FIXME(ZuseZ4): This logic is a bit more complicated than it should be, can we simplify it
+    // using iterators and peek()?
+    let mut outer_pos: usize = 0;
+    let mut activity_pos = 0;
+
+    if has_sret {
+        // Then the first outer arg is the sret pointer. Enzyme doesn't know about sret, so the
+        // inner function will still return something. We increase our outer_pos by one,
+        // and once we're done with all other args we will take the return of the inner call and
+        // update the sret pointer with it
+        outer_pos = 1;
+    }
+
+    let enzyme_const = cx.create_metadata("enzyme_const".to_string()).unwrap();
+    let enzyme_out = cx.create_metadata("enzyme_out".to_string()).unwrap();
+    let enzyme_dup = cx.create_metadata("enzyme_dup".to_string()).unwrap();
+    let enzyme_dupv = cx.create_metadata("enzyme_dupv".to_string()).unwrap();
+    let enzyme_dupnoneed = cx.create_metadata("enzyme_dupnoneed".to_string()).unwrap();
+    let enzyme_dupnoneedv = cx.create_metadata("enzyme_dupnoneedv".to_string()).unwrap();
+
+    while activity_pos < inputs.len() {
+        let diff_activity = inputs[activity_pos as usize];
+        // Duplicated arguments received a shadow argument, into which enzyme will write the
+        // gradient.
+        let (activity, duplicated): (&Metadata, bool) = match diff_activity {
+            DiffActivity::None => panic!("not a valid input activity"),
+            DiffActivity::Const => (enzyme_const, false),
+            DiffActivity::Active => (enzyme_out, false),
+            DiffActivity::ActiveOnly => (enzyme_out, false),
+            DiffActivity::Dual => (enzyme_dup, true),
+            DiffActivity::Dualv => (enzyme_dupv, true),
+            DiffActivity::DualOnly => (enzyme_dupnoneed, true),
+            DiffActivity::DualvOnly => (enzyme_dupnoneedv, true),
+            DiffActivity::Duplicated => (enzyme_dup, true),
+            DiffActivity::DuplicatedOnly => (enzyme_dupnoneed, true),
+            DiffActivity::FakeActivitySize(_) => (enzyme_const, false),
+        };
+        let outer_arg = outer_args[outer_pos];
+        args.push(cx.get_metadata_value(activity));
+        if matches!(diff_activity, DiffActivity::Dualv) {
+            let next_outer_arg = outer_args[outer_pos + 1];
+            let elem_bytes_size: u64 = match inputs[activity_pos + 1] {
+                DiffActivity::FakeActivitySize(Some(s)) => s.into(),
+                _ => bug!("incorrect Dualv handling recognized."),
+            };
+            // stride: sizeof(T) * n_elems.
+            // n_elems is the next integer.
+            // Now we multiply `4 * next_outer_arg` to get the stride.
+            let mul = unsafe {
+                llvm::LLVMBuildMul(
+                    builder.llbuilder,
+                    cx.get_const_i64(elem_bytes_size),
+                    next_outer_arg,
+                    UNNAMED,
+                )
+            };
+            args.push(mul);
+        }
+        args.push(outer_arg);
+        if duplicated {
+            // We know that duplicated args by construction have a following argument,
+            // so this can not be out of bounds.
+            let next_outer_arg = outer_args[outer_pos + 1];
+            let next_outer_ty = cx.val_ty(next_outer_arg);
+            // FIXME(ZuseZ4): We should add support for Vec here too, but it's less urgent since
+            // vectors behind references (&Vec<T>) are already supported. Users can not pass a
+            // Vec by value for reverse mode, so this would only help forward mode autodiff.
+            let slice = {
+                if activity_pos + 1 >= inputs.len() {
+                    // If there is no arg following our ptr, it also can't be a slice,
+                    // since that would lead to a ptr, int pair.
+                    false
+                } else {
+                    let next_activity = inputs[activity_pos + 1];
+                    // We analyze the MIR types and add this dummy activity if we visit a slice.
+                    matches!(next_activity, DiffActivity::FakeActivitySize(_))
+                }
+            };
+            if slice {
+                // A duplicated slice will have the following two outer_fn arguments:
+                // (..., ptr1, int1, ptr2, int2, ...). We add the following llvm-ir to our __enzyme call:
+                // (..., metadata! enzyme_dup, ptr, ptr, int1, ...).
+                // FIXME(ZuseZ4): We will upstream a safety check later which asserts that
+                // int2 >= int1, which means the shadow vector is large enough to store the gradient.
+                assert_eq!(cx.type_kind(next_outer_ty), TypeKind::Integer);
+
+                let iterations =
+                    if matches!(diff_activity, DiffActivity::Dualv) { 1 } else { width as usize };
+
+                for i in 0..iterations {
+                    let next_outer_arg2 = outer_args[outer_pos + 2 * (i + 1)];
+                    let next_outer_ty2 = cx.val_ty(next_outer_arg2);
+                    assert_eq!(cx.type_kind(next_outer_ty2), TypeKind::Pointer);
+                    let next_outer_arg3 = outer_args[outer_pos + 2 * (i + 1) + 1];
+                    let next_outer_ty3 = cx.val_ty(next_outer_arg3);
+                    assert_eq!(cx.type_kind(next_outer_ty3), TypeKind::Integer);
+                    args.push(next_outer_arg2);
+                }
+                args.push(cx.get_metadata_value(enzyme_const));
+                args.push(next_outer_arg);
+                outer_pos += 2 + 2 * iterations;
+                activity_pos += 2;
+            } else {
+                // A duplicated pointer will have the following two outer_fn arguments:
+                // (..., ptr, ptr, ...). We add the following llvm-ir to our __enzyme call:
+                // (..., metadata! enzyme_dup, ptr, ptr, ...).
+                if matches!(diff_activity, DiffActivity::Duplicated | DiffActivity::DuplicatedOnly)
+                {
+                    assert_eq!(cx.type_kind(next_outer_ty), TypeKind::Pointer);
+                }
+                // In the case of Dual we don't have assumptions, e.g. f32 would be valid.
+                args.push(next_outer_arg);
+                outer_pos += 2;
+                activity_pos += 1;
+
+                // Now, if width > 1, we need to account for that
+                for _ in 1..width {
+                    let next_outer_arg = outer_args[outer_pos];
+                    args.push(next_outer_arg);
+                    outer_pos += 1;
+                }
+            }
+        } else {
+            // We do not differentiate with resprect to this argument.
+            // We already added the metadata and argument above, so just increase the counters.
+            outer_pos += 1;
+            activity_pos += 1;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+// On LLVM-IR, we can luckily declare __enzyme_ functions without specifying the input
+// arguments. We do however need to declare them with their correct return type.
+// We already figured the correct return type out in our frontend, when generating the outer_fn,
+// so we can now just go ahead and use that. This is not always trivial, e.g. because sret.
+// Beyond sret, this article describes our challenges nicely:
+// <https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/the-mess-that-is-handling-structure-arguments-and-returns-in-llvm/>
+// I.e. (i32, f32) will get merged into i64, but we don't handle that yet.
+fn compute_enzyme_fn_ty<'ll>(
+    cx: &SimpleCx<'ll>,
+    attrs: &AutoDiffAttrs,
+    fn_to_diff: &'ll Value,
+    outer_fn: &'ll Value,
+) -> &'ll llvm::Type {
+    let fn_ty = cx.get_type_of_global(outer_fn);
+    let mut ret_ty = cx.get_return_type(fn_ty);
+
+    let has_sret = has_sret(outer_fn);
+
+    if has_sret {
+        // Now we don't just forward the return type, so we have to figure it out based on the
+        // primal return type, in combination with the autodiff settings.
+        let fn_ty = cx.get_type_of_global(fn_to_diff);
+        let inner_ret_ty = cx.get_return_type(fn_ty);
+
+        let void_ty = unsafe { llvm::LLVMVoidTypeInContext(cx.llcx) };
+        if inner_ret_ty == void_ty {
+            // This indicates that even the inner function has an sret.
+            // Right now I only look for an sret in the outer function.
+            // This *probably* needs some extra handling, but I never ran
+            // into such a case. So I'll wait for user reports to have a test case.
+            bug!("sret in inner function");
+        }
+
+        if attrs.width == 1 {
+            // Enzyme returns a struct of style:
+            // `{ original_ret(if requested), float, float, ... }`
+            let mut struct_elements = vec![];
+            if attrs.has_primal_ret() {
+                struct_elements.push(inner_ret_ty);
+            }
+            // Next, we push the list of active floats, since they will be lowered to `enzyme_out`,
+            // and therefore part of the return struct.
+            let param_tys = cx.func_params_types(fn_ty);
+            for (act, param_ty) in attrs.input_activity.iter().zip(param_tys) {
+                if matches!(act, DiffActivity::Active) {
+                    // Now find the float type at position i based on the fn_ty,
+                    // to know what (f16/f32/f64/...) to add to the struct.
+                    struct_elements.push(param_ty);
+                }
+            }
+            ret_ty = cx.type_struct(&struct_elements, false);
+        } else {
+            // First we check if we also have to deal with the primal return.
+            match attrs.mode {
+                DiffMode::Forward => match attrs.ret_activity {
+                    DiffActivity::Dual => {
+                        let arr_ty =
+                            unsafe { llvm::LLVMArrayType2(inner_ret_ty, attrs.width as u64 + 1) };
+                        ret_ty = arr_ty;
+                    }
+                    DiffActivity::DualOnly => {
+                        let arr_ty =
+                            unsafe { llvm::LLVMArrayType2(inner_ret_ty, attrs.width as u64) };
+                        ret_ty = arr_ty;
+                    }
+                    DiffActivity::Const => {
+                        todo!("Not sure, do we need to do something here?");
+                    }
+                    _ => {
+                        bug!("unreachable");
+                    }
+                },
+                DiffMode::Reverse => {
+                    todo!("Handle sret for reverse mode");
+                }
+                _ => {
+                    bug!("unreachable");
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // LLVM can figure out the input types on it's own, so we take a shortcut here.
+    unsafe { llvm::LLVMFunctionType(ret_ty, ptr::null(), 0, True) }
 }
 
 /// When differentiating `fn_to_diff`, take a `outer_fn` and generate another
@@ -43,9 +295,6 @@ fn generate_enzyme_call<'ll>(
     outer_fn: &'ll Value,
     attrs: AutoDiffAttrs,
 ) {
-    let inputs = attrs.input_activity;
-    let output = attrs.ret_activity;
-
     // We have to pick the name depending on whether we want forward or reverse mode autodiff.
     let mut ad_name: String = match attrs.mode {
         DiffMode::Forward => "__enzyme_fwddiff",
@@ -93,17 +342,9 @@ fn generate_enzyme_call<'ll>(
     // }
     // ```
     unsafe {
-        // On LLVM-IR, we can luckily declare __enzyme_ functions without specifying the input
-        // arguments. We do however need to declare them with their correct return type.
-        // We already figured the correct return type out in our frontend, when generating the outer_fn,
-        // so we can now just go ahead and use that. FIXME(ZuseZ4): This doesn't handle sret yet.
-        let fn_ty = llvm::LLVMGlobalGetValueType(outer_fn);
-        let ret_ty = llvm::LLVMGetReturnType(fn_ty);
-
-        // LLVM can figure out the input types on it's own, so we take a shortcut here.
-        let enzyme_ty = llvm::LLVMFunctionType(ret_ty, ptr::null(), 0, True);
+        let enzyme_ty = compute_enzyme_fn_ty(cx, &attrs, fn_to_diff, outer_fn);
 
-        //FIXME(ZuseZ4): the CC/Addr/Vis values are best effort guesses, we should look at tests and
+        // FIXME(ZuseZ4): the CC/Addr/Vis values are best effort guesses, we should look at tests and
         // think a bit more about what should go here.
         let cc = llvm::LLVMGetFunctionCallConv(outer_fn);
         let ad_fn = declare_simple_fn(
@@ -132,116 +373,32 @@ fn generate_enzyme_call<'ll>(
         let mut args = Vec::with_capacity(num_args as usize + 1);
         args.push(fn_to_diff);
 
-        let enzyme_const = cx.create_metadata("enzyme_const".to_string()).unwrap();
-        let enzyme_out = cx.create_metadata("enzyme_out".to_string()).unwrap();
-        let enzyme_dup = cx.create_metadata("enzyme_dup".to_string()).unwrap();
-        let enzyme_dupnoneed = cx.create_metadata("enzyme_dupnoneed".to_string()).unwrap();
         let enzyme_primal_ret = cx.create_metadata("enzyme_primal_return".to_string()).unwrap();
-
-        match output {
-            DiffActivity::Dual => {
-                args.push(cx.get_metadata_value(enzyme_primal_ret));
-            }
-            DiffActivity::Active => {
-                args.push(cx.get_metadata_value(enzyme_primal_ret));
-            }
-            _ => {}
+        if matches!(attrs.ret_activity, DiffActivity::Dual | DiffActivity::Active) {
+            args.push(cx.get_metadata_value(enzyme_primal_ret));
+        }
+        if attrs.width > 1 {
+            let enzyme_width = cx.create_metadata("enzyme_width".to_string()).unwrap();
+            args.push(cx.get_metadata_value(enzyme_width));
+            args.push(cx.get_const_i64(attrs.width as u64));
         }
 
-        debug!("matching autodiff arguments");
-        // We now handle the issue that Rust level arguments not always match the llvm-ir level
-        // arguments. A slice, `&[f32]`, for example, is represented as a pointer and a length on
-        // llvm-ir level. The number of activities matches the number of Rust level arguments, so we
-        // need to match those.
-        // FIXME(ZuseZ4): This logic is a bit more complicated than it should be, can we simplify it
-        // using iterators and peek()?
-        let mut outer_pos: usize = 0;
-        let mut activity_pos = 0;
+        let has_sret = has_sret(outer_fn);
         let outer_args: Vec<&llvm::Value> = get_params(outer_fn);
-        while activity_pos < inputs.len() {
-            let diff_activity = inputs[activity_pos as usize];
-            // Duplicated arguments received a shadow argument, into which enzyme will write the
-            // gradient.
-            let (activity, duplicated): (&Metadata, bool) = match diff_activity {
-                DiffActivity::None => panic!("not a valid input activity"),
-                DiffActivity::Const => (enzyme_const, false),
-                DiffActivity::Active => (enzyme_out, false),
-                DiffActivity::ActiveOnly => (enzyme_out, false),
-                DiffActivity::Dual => (enzyme_dup, true),
-                DiffActivity::DualOnly => (enzyme_dupnoneed, true),
-                DiffActivity::Duplicated => (enzyme_dup, true),
-                DiffActivity::DuplicatedOnly => (enzyme_dupnoneed, true),
-                DiffActivity::FakeActivitySize => (enzyme_const, false),
-            };
-            let outer_arg = outer_args[outer_pos];
-            args.push(cx.get_metadata_value(activity));
-            args.push(outer_arg);
-            if duplicated {
-                // We know that duplicated args by construction have a following argument,
-                // so this can not be out of bounds.
-                let next_outer_arg = outer_args[outer_pos + 1];
-                let next_outer_ty = cx.val_ty(next_outer_arg);
-                // FIXME(ZuseZ4): We should add support for Vec here too, but it's less urgent since
-                // vectors behind references (&Vec<T>) are already supported. Users can not pass a
-                // Vec by value for reverse mode, so this would only help forward mode autodiff.
-                let slice = {
-                    if activity_pos + 1 >= inputs.len() {
-                        // If there is no arg following our ptr, it also can't be a slice,
-                        // since that would lead to a ptr, int pair.
-                        false
-                    } else {
-                        let next_activity = inputs[activity_pos + 1];
-                        // We analyze the MIR types and add this dummy activity if we visit a slice.
-                        next_activity == DiffActivity::FakeActivitySize
-                    }
-                };
-                if slice {
-                    // A duplicated slice will have the following two outer_fn arguments:
-                    // (..., ptr1, int1, ptr2, int2, ...). We add the following llvm-ir to our __enzyme call:
-                    // (..., metadata! enzyme_dup, ptr, ptr, int1, ...).
-                    // FIXME(ZuseZ4): We will upstream a safety check later which asserts that
-                    // int2 >= int1, which means the shadow vector is large enough to store the gradient.
-                    assert!(llvm::LLVMRustGetTypeKind(next_outer_ty) == llvm::TypeKind::Integer);
-                    let next_outer_arg2 = outer_args[outer_pos + 2];
-                    let next_outer_ty2 = cx.val_ty(next_outer_arg2);
-                    assert!(llvm::LLVMRustGetTypeKind(next_outer_ty2) == llvm::TypeKind::Pointer);
-                    let next_outer_arg3 = outer_args[outer_pos + 3];
-                    let next_outer_ty3 = cx.val_ty(next_outer_arg3);
-                    assert!(llvm::LLVMRustGetTypeKind(next_outer_ty3) == llvm::TypeKind::Integer);
-                    args.push(next_outer_arg2);
-                    args.push(cx.get_metadata_value(enzyme_const));
-                    args.push(next_outer_arg);
-                    outer_pos += 4;
-                    activity_pos += 2;
-                } else {
-                    // A duplicated pointer will have the following two outer_fn arguments:
-                    // (..., ptr, ptr, ...). We add the following llvm-ir to our __enzyme call:
-                    // (..., metadata! enzyme_dup, ptr, ptr, ...).
-                    if matches!(
-                        diff_activity,
-                        DiffActivity::Duplicated | DiffActivity::DuplicatedOnly
-                    ) {
-                        assert!(
-                            llvm::LLVMRustGetTypeKind(next_outer_ty) == llvm::TypeKind::Pointer
-                        );
-                    }
-                    // In the case of Dual we don't have assumptions, e.g. f32 would be valid.
-                    args.push(next_outer_arg);
-                    outer_pos += 2;
-                    activity_pos += 1;
-                }
-            } else {
-                // We do not differentiate with resprect to this argument.
-                // We already added the metadata and argument above, so just increase the counters.
-                outer_pos += 1;
-                activity_pos += 1;
-            }
-        }
+        match_args_from_caller_to_enzyme(
+            &cx,
+            &builder,
+            attrs.width,
+            &mut args,
+            &attrs.input_activity,
+            &outer_args,
+            has_sret,
+        );
 
         let call = builder.call(enzyme_ty, ad_fn, &args, None);
 
         // This part is a bit iffy. LLVM requires that a call to an inlineable function has some
-        // metadata attachted to it, but we just created this code oota. Given that the
+        // metadata attached to it, but we just created this code oota. Given that the
         // differentiated function already has partly confusing metadata, and given that this
         // affects nothing but the auttodiff IR, we take a shortcut and just steal metadata from the
         // dummy code which we inserted at a higher level.
@@ -262,7 +419,26 @@ fn generate_enzyme_call<'ll>(
         // Now that we copied the metadata, get rid of dummy code.
         llvm::LLVMRustEraseInstUntilInclusive(entry, last_inst);
 
-        if cx.val_ty(call) == cx.type_void() {
+        if cx.val_ty(call) == cx.type_void() || has_sret {
+            if has_sret {
+                // This is what we already have in our outer_fn (shortened):
+                // define void @_foo(ptr <..> sret([32 x i8]) initializes((0, 32)) %0, <...>) {
+                //   %7 = call [4 x double] (...) @__enzyme_fwddiff_foo(ptr @square, metadata !"enzyme_width", i64 4, <...>)
+                //   <Here we are, we want to add the following two lines>
+                //   store [4 x double] %7, ptr %0, align 8
+                //   ret void
+                // }
+
+                // now store the result of the enzyme call into the sret pointer.
+                let sret_ptr = outer_args[0];
+                let call_ty = cx.val_ty(call);
+                if attrs.width == 1 {
+                    assert_eq!(cx.type_kind(call_ty), TypeKind::Struct);
+                } else {
+                    assert_eq!(cx.type_kind(call_ty), TypeKind::Array);
+                }
+                llvm::LLVMBuildStore(&builder.llbuilder, call, sret_ptr);
+            }
             builder.ret_void();
         } else {
             builder.ret(call);
@@ -294,11 +470,10 @@ pub(crate) fn differentiate<'ll>(
     if !diff_items.is_empty()
         && !cgcx.opts.unstable_opts.autodiff.contains(&rustc_session::config::AutoDiff::Enable)
     {
-        let dcx = cgcx.create_dcx();
-        return Err(dcx.handle().emit_almost_fatal(AutoDiffWithoutEnable));
+        return Err(diag_handler.handle().emit_almost_fatal(AutoDiffWithoutEnable));
     }
 
-    // Before dumping the module, we want all the TypeTrees to become part of the module.
+    // Here we replace the placeholder code with the actual autodiff code, which calls Enzyme.
     for item in diff_items.iter() {
         let name = item.source.clone();
         let fn_def: Option<&llvm::Value> = cx.get_function(&name);