* Segher Boessenkool:

> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 12:59:27PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> 2018-09-21  Florian Weimer  <fwei...@redhat.com>
>> 
>>      PR middle-end/81035
>>      * doc/extend.texi (Common Function Attributes): Mention that
>>      noreturn suppresses tail call optimization.
>
>> +In order to preserve backtraces, GCC will never turn calls to
>> +@code{noreturn} functions into tail calls.
>
> Should we document this?  Shouldn't we fix it, instead?

Fix how?  What is currently broken?

For things like assertion failures, we do not want to replace the
current stack frame with that of __assert_fail, I think.

Thanks,
Florian

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