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Re: [tree-ssa] Tail recursion optimisation

From: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
Cc: Zdenek Dvorak <rakdver at atrey dot karlin dot mff dot cuni dot cz>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:10:43 -0400
Subject: Re: [tree-ssa] Tail recursion optimisation
References: <20031017000108.GA1882@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz><20031017004020.GD28654@redhat.com>

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:40:20 -0700, Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> wrote:

>   (2) The function not being named recursion specific, say,
>       tree_optimize_tail_calls.

It seems to me that recursion is the only case which can be interestingly
handled at the tree level.  Other tail calls just involve popping the
current frame before the call (right?), which we don't represent at the
tree level.  Or is there something else you had in mind?

Jason

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