Re: Annoying warning

[Joe Buck <jbuck at Synopsys dot COM>]

> I mentioned this to the libstdc++-v3 list some time back.  The solution then
> was to simply remove the 'inline' since (according to the list) the egcs
> optimizer doesn't know how to turn tail recursion into a loop. 

That's incorrect: gcc does know how to eliminate tail recursion and has
for a long time.  RMS put that one in years ago: anyone from MIT, where
Scheme rules, wouldn't tolerate a compiler that can't handle tail recursion.

I just confirmed that gcc/egcs correctly transforms and inlines a
tail-recursive function on the Sparc.

Here's my testcase.
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struct node {
    struct node* next;
    int data;
};

inline int last_node(node* p) {
    if (p->next)
	return last_node(p->next);
    else
	return p->data;
}

int call_last_node(node* p) {
    return last_node(p);
}

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