[cleanup] Remove always-off support for tail calls

The tail call implementation is hidden behind the --harmony-tailcalls
flag, which is off-by-default (and has been unstaged since February).
It is known to be broken in a variety of cases, including clusterfuzz
security issues (see sample Chromium issues below). To avoid letting
the implementation bitrot further on trunk, this patch removes it.

Bug: v8:4698, chromium:636914, chromium:724746
Cq-Include-Trybots: master.tryserver.chromium.linux:linux_chromium_rel_ng;master.tryserver.v8:v8_linux_noi18n_rel_ng
Change-Id: I9cb547101456a582374fdf7b1a3f044a9ef33e5c
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/569069
Commit-Queue: Adam Klein <adamk@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Benedikt Meurer <bmeurer@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Igor Sheludko <ishell@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Ross McIlroy <rmcilroy@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#46651}
105 files changed
tree: 38de1631a2189b819c19bab3ec208d8e0a55b0cf
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README.md

V8 JavaScript Engine

V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.

V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262.

V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google.

V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application.

V8 Project page: https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki

Getting the Code

Checkout depot tools, and run

    fetch v8

This will checkout V8 into the directory v8 and fetch all of its dependencies. To stay up to date, run

    git pull origin
    gclient sync

For fetching all branches, add the following into your remote configuration in .git/config:

    fetch = +refs/branch-heads/*:refs/remotes/branch-heads/*
    fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*

Contributing

Please follow the instructions mentioned on the V8 wiki.