[llvm-dev] Way to guarantee generated indirect call is via memory?

[Eugene Rozenfeld via llvm-dev]

I'd like to generate an indirect call instruction that will end up as a call via memory and not register.
The address of the target is a constant.

For example, something like

%25 = load i64, i64* @get_Now
%26 = inttoptr i64 %25 to i64 ()*
%27 = call i64 %26()

may end up as

mov      rsi,qword ptr [00007FF658381070]
call        rsi

or as

call  qword ptr [00007FF658381070]

If I want to guarantee that the second form is always used, how would I go about that?

One possibility is to use patchpoints (http://llvm.org/docs/StackMaps.html#id9). Are there any other alternatives?

Eugene
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