zequanwu added a comment.

In D96832#2568257 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D96832#2568257>, @aaron.ballman 
wrote:

> It was explicitly disallowed in the initial patch: 
> https://reviews.llvm.org/D12922 and the original author said "I'm still 
> trying to figure out the best way to handle c++ virtual functions: this 
> attribute is not very useful for someone who is looking for a way to reliably 
> prevent tail-call to a virtual function." and "I made this change because 
> this attribute isn't useful when the compiler cannot resolve the function 
> call statically at compile time and it isn't important for the use case I 
> have." Has this situation changed in the backend?

Oh, I didn't see that. But when I tested `not_tail_called` on normal functions, 
 it seems like not working(https://godbolt.org/z/znr5b5, `f1` is marked as 
`not_tail_called`, it still get inlined). Or, I misunderstand how to use it 
properly?


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