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From: moore@utah-cs.UUCP (Tim Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: tail recursion in C
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Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 20:10:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 29 20:10:49 1987
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Are there any C compilers which perform tail recursive optimization?
As an example, are there any C compilers under which the following
(stupid) program 

main()
{
    change(1);
}

change(a)
     int a;
{
    int b;

    b = -a;
    change(b);
}

will run forever and not run out of stack?