The basic problem is that some mainstream programs cannot deal with the way
clang optimizes tail calls, as in this example:
int foo(void);
int bar(void) {
return foo();
}
where the call is transformed to:
calll .L0$pb
.L0$pb:
popl %eax
.Ltmp0:
addl $_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_+(.Ltmp0-.L0$pb), %eax
movl foo@GOT(%eax), %eax
popl %ebp
jmpl *%eax # TAILCALL
However, the GOT references must all be resolved at dlopen() time, and so this
approach cannot be used with lazy dynamic linking (e.g. using RTLD_LAZY), which
usually populates the PLT with stubs that perform the actual resolving.
This patch changes X86TargetLowering::LowerCall() to skip tail call
optimization, if the called function is a global or external symbol.
This fixes problems with loading X.org driver modules, which could occur
when X.org was compiled on i386 with tailcall optimization on, for which
ports r312583 was committed as a workaround. After this change, the
workaround can be removed.
MFC after: 3 days
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