tail calls in const functions?

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 03:24:31PM +0100, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> Hi
> The tail call optimization makes function to modify the stack, that
> belongs to the caller.  Is this valid for const function?
> IMO gcc has right to optimize out:
> int test()
> {
> return c(1) + d(1);
> }
> the second store of 1, in case c is const function (it don't do that currently).

This is actually a wrong example, because none of these functions can be
a tail call (the parent routine has to sum the two returned values up).

Cheers,
    Jakub
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