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Re: proper tail recursion for gcc

To: Mark Probst <schani at mips dot complang dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
Subject: Re: proper tail recursion for gcc
From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
Date: 20 Jul 2000 11:12:01 -0300
Cc: Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
References: <20000720020357.M3827@vader.unix.cslab.tuwien.ac.at><jmpuo949pr.fsf@envy.cygnus.com><20000720112151.O3827@vader.unix.cslab.tuwien.ac.at>

On Jul 20, 2000, Mark Probst <schani@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:06:08PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:

>> I think you'll find this has already been done in the development gcc.
>> It's the 'sibling call' optimisation.

> only calls to static functions are optimized

Non-static functions may be overridden if the object file is used to
create a library and a program linked with the library defines the
same symbol.

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