[llvm-dev] llvm optimizer turning musttail into tail

Sean Silva via llvm-dev
2016-11-27T00:37:43Z

r287955 seems like it might be related.

-- Sean Silva

On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Sean Silva <chisophugis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This sounds buggy to me. What pass is doing this?
>
> -- Sean Silva
>
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 5:39 AM, Carlo Kok via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> I've got some calls like:
>>
>> musttail call void bitcast (i32 (i32, i8*, %Type*)* @MyMethod to void
>> (i32, i8*)*)(i32 %0, i8* %1)
>> ret void
>>
>> Into something like:
>> %8 = tail call i32 @MyMethod(i32 %0, i8* %1, %Type* null)
>> ret void
>>
>> I realize I'm losing a parameter there, but this is an interface
jump
>> trick I use and relies on the end code being a 'jmp' (x86). I
realize i can
>> probably use noopt & noinline to do this trick, but I do want llvm
to
>> optimize and inline calls if it can prove it always calls a given
method.
>> Any way i can do this?
>>
>> --
>> Carlo Kok
>> RemObjects Software
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