Calls that are marked as @notoc do not require the extra nop after the call
for the TOC restore.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D81081
Tail Calls were initially disabled for PC Relative code because it was not safe
to make certain assumptions about the tail calls (namely that all compiled
functions no longer used the TOC pointer in R2). However, once all of the
TOC pointer references have been removed it is safe to tail call everything
that was tail called prior to the PC relative additions as well as a number of
new cases.
For example, it is now possible to tail call indirect functions as there is no
need to save and restore the TOC pointer for indirect functions if the caller
is marked as may clobber R2 (st_other=1). For the same reason it is now also
possible to tail call functions that are external.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D77788
On PowerPC most functions require a valid TOC pointer.
This is the case because either the function itself needs to use this
pointer to access the TOC or because other functions that are called
from that function expect a valid TOC pointer in the register R2.
The main exception to this is leaf functions that do not access the TOC
since they are guaranteed not to need a valid TOC pointer.
This patch introduces a feature that will allow more functions to not
require a valid TOC pointer in R2.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D73664
Stefan Pintilie