The original change was reverted because it was discovered
that clang mishandles thunks, and they receive wrong
attributes for their this/return types - the ones for the function
they will call, not the ones they have.
While i have tried to fix this in https://reviews.llvm.org/D100388
that patch has been up and stuck for a month now,
with little signs of progress.
So while it will be good to solve this for real,
for now we can simply avoid introducing the bug,
by not annotating this/return for thunks.
This reverts commit 6270b3a1eafaba4279e021418c5a2c5a35abc002,
relanding 0aa0458f1429372038ca6a4edc7e94c96cd9a753.
This is a Clang-only change and depends on the existing "musttail"
support already implemented in LLVM.
The [[clang::musttail]] attribute goes on a return statement, not
a function definition. There are several constraints that the user
must follow when using [[clang::musttail]], and these constraints
are verified by Sema.
Tail calls are supported on regular function calls, calls through a
function pointer, member function calls, and even pointer to member.
Future work would be to throw a warning if a users tries to pass
a pointer or reference to a local variable through a musttail call.
Reviewed By: rsmith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99517
