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<li><a href="#targetimpls">Target-specific Implementation Notes</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#tailcallopt">Tail call optimization</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#sibcallopt">Sibling call optimization</a></li>
<li><a href="#x86">The X86 backend</a></li>
<li><a href="#ppc">The PowerPC backend</a>
<ul>
@@ -1734,6 +1735,50 @@ define fastcc i32 @tailcaller(i32 %in1, i32 %in2) {
</div>
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<div class="doc_subsection">
+ <a name="sibcallopt">Sibling call optimization</a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="doc_text">
+
+<p>Sibling call optimization is a restricted form of tail call optimization.
+ Unlike tail call optimization described in the previous section, it can be
+ performed automatically on any tail calls when <tt>-tailcallopt</tt> option
+ is not specified.</p>
+
+<p>Sibling call optimization is currently performed on x86/x86-64 when the
+ following constraints are met:</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>Caller and callee have the same calling convention. It can be either
+ <tt>c</tt> or <tt>fastcc</tt>.
+
+ <li>The call is a tail call - in tail position (ret immediately follows call
+ and ret uses value of call or is void).</li>
+
+ <li>Caller and callee have matching return type or the callee result is not
+ used.
+
+ <li>If any of the callee arguments are being passed in stack, they must be
+ available in caller's own incoming argument stack and the frame offsets
+ must be the same.
+</ul>
+
+<p>Example:</p>
+<div class="doc_code">
+<pre>
+declare i32 @bar(i32, i32)
+
+define i32 @foo(i32 %a, i32 %b, i32 %c) {
+entry:
+ %0 = tail call i32 @bar(i32 %a, i32 %b)
+ ret i32 %0
+}
+</pre>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+<!-- ======================================================================= -->
+<div class="doc_subsection">
<a name="x86">The X86 backend</a>
</div>
@@ -2116,7 +2161,7 @@ MOVSX32rm16 -&gt; movsx, 32-bit register, 16-bit memory
<a href="mailto:sabre@nondot.org">Chris Lattner</a><br>
<a href="http://llvm.org">The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a><br>
- Last modified: $Date: 2010-03-02 02:11:08 +0100 (Tue, 02 Mar 2010) $
+ Last modified: $Date: 2010-03-08 22:05:02 +0100 (Mon, 08 Mar 2010) $
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