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Re: Work in progress: "Super Sib Calls"; opinions sought

From: Geert Bosch <bosch at gnat dot com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
Cc: Andreas Bauer <baueran at in dot tum dot de>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org,pizka at in dot tum dot de, jason dot ozolins at anu dot edu dot au
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:33:14 -0400
Subject: Re: Work in progress: "Super Sib Calls"; opinions sought

On Monday, Sep 9, 2002, at 06:12 America/New_York, Richard Henderson wrote:

If you do not plan to address this data flow issue in some way,
you might as well quit now.

Note that Ada semantics prevent such leaking of general pointer types.
I'm not sure what the situation is with other languages such as Fortran,
but it seems a bit strong to say that better optimizing tail calls for
languages that do not suffer from this particular C problem would be useless.

-Geert

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