The attached patch adds a new "-no-tail-calls" flag to llc, and implements it in the x86 backend only. The intent is to support gcc's -fno-optimize-sibling-calls in clang, which as far as I can tell just disables tail calls period. The goal is to help ASAN produce correct stack traces, which requires disabling all tail calls.<div>
<br></div><div>As an aside, there is a good reason to do this in the backend and not at the IR-level. The "tail" marker is used to indicate things that are useful to the optimizers themselves; for example alias analysis interprets the presence of a tail marker as proof that the callee can't access any alloca's in the caller, whether the pointer has been captured or not.<br>
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<br></div><div>Please review!</div><div><br></div><div>Nick</div><div><br></div>
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