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2011/4/13 Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 08:17:02PM -0600, Jay McCarthy wrote:
>> LLVM definitely supports tail-calls and GC.
>>
>> TCO:
>> http://llvm.org/docs/CodeGenerator.html#tailcallopt
>
> Good to hear.  What does the restriction
>
> when generating GOT/PIC code only module-local calls (visibility =
> hidden or protected) are supported.
> mean?

A tail-call to a function located to another module will use stack space.
But that's not too helpful -what is a module?

The docs are here:
    http://docs.huihoo.com/llvm/LangRef.html#modulestructure

It says:
>   LLVM programs are composed of "Module"s, each of which is a translation unit of the input programs.
>   Each module consists of functions, global variables, and symbol table entries. Modules may be
>  combined together with the LLVM linker, which merges function (and global variable) definitions,
>  resolves forward declarations, and merges symbol table entries.

In the case of a C compiler it could mean one of:
   *  a module corresponds to  a source file
   *  a module corresponds to the source files that turn into one linker unit
Which one is the correct one depends on how the C compiler uses the
LLVM backend.

I do not know which is correct for llvm-gcc.

-- 
Jens Axel Søgaard