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Re: proper tail recursion for gcc

To: Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>
Subject: Re: proper tail recursion for gcc
From: Mark Probst <schani at mips dot complang dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 11:21:51 +0000
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <20000720020357.M3827@vader.unix.cslab.tuwien.ac.at> <jmpuo949pr.fsf@envy.cygnus.com>

On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:06:08PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > i want to implement proper tail recursion for a much broader set of
> > cases than is currently implemented.
> ...
> 
> I think you'll find this has already been done in the development gcc.
> It's the 'sibling call' optimisation.

i was referring to exactly this optimization. at least on the alpha,
for example, only calls to static functions are optimized, which is
not very helpful if you need separate compilation.

bye
schani

-- 
Mark Probst
Student, Programmer
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/~schani/

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