[LLVMdev] Tail-calling

[Evan Cheng]

Arnold implemented tail call. We should all urge him to continue his  
work to make it even better. :-)

Evan

On Sep 9, 2008, at 1:19 AM, OvermindDL1 wrote:

>> Tail calls are disabled by default; to enable them, you have to pass
>> -tailcallopt to llc.  It looks like there's a bug preventing indirect
>> tail calls from working... I don't think there's anything
>> fundamentally preventing them from working, though.
>
> I will not be using llc, it will all be through the C++ API.  I looked
> through the code a bit, but could not see any real direct way to turn
> on tall-calls, the only thing I could really find was a single global
> (yes, a global... ugh...) that many things referenced, if I set that
> then things should use tail-call versions of things.
>
> What about this indirect bug, is anyone working on it?  I would try,
> but I am quite certain I do not yet have the LLVM internals knowledge
> to (or even where to look).
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