From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@redhat.com>
To: "Geert Bosch" <bosch@gnat.com>
Cc: "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: forcing tail/sibling call optimization 
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:06:00 -0000
Message-id: <1577.975355626@upchuck>
References: <20001127173909.2975234D80@nile.gnat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2000-11/msg01200.html

  In message < 20001127173909.2975234D80@nile.gnat.com >you write:
  > In order to write a GCC front-end for any language with proper 
  > tail-recursion,  there should be a way in the tree to represent a tail call
Right.  We don't have that ability right now, but I'd support adding it for
those languages which need it.


  > If the GCC backend is not able to compile this on a certain architecture,
  > it abandons the compilation with an error.
Right.
jeff