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From: richard%aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK (Richard Tobin)
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Subject: Tail recursion
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Date: 27 Jun 89 13:42:16 GMT
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The version of gcc we have (1.34) does self tail-recursion in simple cases.
Is anyone extending this?  What problems are there with making all tail
calls into jumps (I know about pointers to local variables; are there
others?)?

-- Richard

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