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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/20/2016 4:12 AM, Martin J.
      O'Riordan via llvm-dev wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book
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            modified my sources to force ‘</span><span
            style="font-family:"Courier
            New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">readnone</span><span
            style="font-family:"Book
            Antiqua",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">’
            and even tried ‘</span><span
            style="font-family:"Courier
            New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">setDoesNotAccessMemory()</span><span
            style="font-family:"Book
            Antiqua",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">’
            on the math functions, but this still results in one call
            occurring and the code generated is effectively:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book
            Antiqua",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
            style="font-family:"Courier
            New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">(void)exp(1.0);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
            style="font-family:"Courier
            New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">return 0;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            Antiqua",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
          New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
            New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">  %1 =
            tail call float @exp(float 1.000000e+00)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
          New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
            New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
            New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">; Function
            Attrs: readnone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span
            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
            New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">declare
            float @exp(float) local_unnamed_addr #1</span></p>
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    You have to set readonly on the call, not the function ("<span
      style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
      New";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">tail call float
      @exp(float 1.000000e+00) readonly"</span>) ; the attributes on a
    function declaration are generally ignored by LLVM.<br>
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    <br>
    For the difference between 3.8 and 3.9, see
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=30464">https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=30464</a> .<br>
    <br>
    -Eli<br>
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