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Re: Work in progress: "Super Sib Calls"; opinions sought
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- To: Geert Bosch <bosch at gnat dot com>
- Cc: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>,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 18:41:33 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: Work in progress: "Super Sib Calls"; opinions sought
- References: <20020909101218.GA22341@redhat.com><3838AEFC-C41A-11D6-8D33-00039344BF4A@gnat.com>
Geert Bosch writes:
>
> 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.
Java too.
> 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.
Yup.
Andrew.