[m-rev.] for review: IL back-end: avoid byref tailcalls

[Tyson Dowd]

On 03-Aug-2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> With this change, compiling with --verifiable-code reduces the number
> of tail calls that we generate in the Mercury standard library from 1481
> to 716 (a reduction of just over 50%).
> 
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> Estimated hours taken: 1
> Branches: main
> 
> compiler/mlds_to_il.m:
> 	If --verifiable-code is set, don't emit "tail." prefixes on tail
> 	calls with byref parameters, unless --il-byref-tailcalls is set.
> 	This is needed to make the generated code verifiable.

This looks fine, thanks Fergus.

Tyson.
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