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Steven Rostedt writes:
> On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 13:30 -0700, Adam Nemet wrote:
> > Also note that for functions invoked via tail call you won't get an exit
> > event.  E.g. if bar is tail-called from foo:
> > 
> >   foo entered
> >   bar entered
> >   foo/bar exited
> > 
> > However, this is not MIPS-specific and you can always disable tail calls
> > with -fno-optimize-sibling-calls.
> 
> The question is, would bar have a _mcount call? So far, we have not had
> any issues with this on either x86 nor PPC.

Yes, bar will have an _mcount call.  The difference is that bar will return to
foo's caller directly rather than to foo first.

Adam