https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70804
Alexander Monakov <amonakov at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |amonakov at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #3 from Alexander Monakov <amonakov at gcc dot gnu.org> --- Tailcall optimization is not applicable here: while E::destroy is running, the object must still be live (and the body of E::destroy is unavailable, so GCC can't know if it inspects the object or not). But if you're making a tailcall from f to E::destroy, you're invoking E::destroy after the lifetime of b has ended. E::destroy accepts a pointer to the object ('this'), but if you'd be making a tailcall, the 'this' you'd be passing would point to just-deallocated f's stack frame.