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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW --- - Inefficient lowering of 'musttail' call"
   href="https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=23470">23470</a>
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        <tr>
          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Inefficient lowering of 'musttail' call
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>Product</th>
          <td>libraries
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>Version</th>
          <td>trunk
          </td>
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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        <tr>
          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>Backend: X86
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>david.majnemer@gmail.com
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        <tr>
          <th>CC</th>
          <td>llvmbugs@cs.uiuc.edu
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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        <pre>consider:
target triple = "x86_64-pc-linux"

define void @f(i8* %x) {
  %bc = bitcast i8* %x to void (i8*)*
  musttail call void (i8*) %bc(i8* %x)
  ret void
}

running it through llc gives:
f:                                      # @f
        .cfi_startproc
# BB#0:
        pushq   %rax
.Ltmp0:
        .cfi_def_cfa_offset 16
        popq    %rax
        jmpq    *%rdi                   # TAILCALL
.Lfunc_end0:
        .size   f, .Lfunc_end0-f
        .cfi_endproc

The push/pop pair seems superfluous.</pre>
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