sibcall.c

[Fergus Henderson]

On 04-Dec-2002, Robert Stone <talby@trap.mtview.ca.us> wrote:
> 
> 	I'm pretty sure that tail call elimination could be more aggressive
> with function pointers.

Try the gcc_3_4_basic_improvements branch.  The version of gcc on
that branch should do better, for x86, on code like the example that
you posted.  The plan is for this to be included in gcc 3.4.

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