[LLVMdev] RFC: PowerPC tail call optimization patch

[Arnold Schwaighofer]

Another round :)

I'll post the patch to llvm-commits cause i guess people might get
annoyed by my series of patches :).

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Evan Cheng <evan.cheng at apple.com> wrote:
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>> +PPCTargetLowering::IsEligibleForTailCallOptimization(SDOperand Call,
>> ...
> That's fine. Please break it into two parts and move the target
> independent part out.
Done - see CheckTailCallReturnConstraints() in TargetLowering. The
rest of the function is still target dependent. PowerPC currently can
not tail call optimize byval functions, no pic/got code for non-local
calls. On x86 no support for pic/got code on x86-64 for non-local
calls.

>  I am not sure. Just thinking aloud. It would be nice if all of the
>  common code can be handled by SelectionDAGISel.  For example, it seems
>  possible for SDIsel to determine which operands can be overwritten and
>  issued the copies there?
>
>
Yes the common code between x86/ppc could be moved to
SelectionDAGISel. See CheckDAGForTailCallsAndFixThem().
> There seem to be quite a bit of duplicated code. Can you refactor?
Created LowerMemOpCallTo.

-arnold