[tree-ssa] Tail recursion optimisation

Jason Merrill jason@redhat.com
Fri Oct 17 02:19:00 GMT 2003


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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