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From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
To: Jan Hubicka <hubicka@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: tail calls in const functions?
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 02:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000324022215.C19110@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000323152431.C2277@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>

On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 03:24:31PM +0100, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> The tail call optimization makes function to modify the stack, that
> belongs to the caller.  Is this valid for const function?

It doesn't belong to the caller.  Not any more than
call-clobbered registers do.

> 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

I don't agree.


r~

      parent reply	other threads:[~2000-03-24  2:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-03-23  6:24 Jan Hubicka
2000-03-23  6:29 ` Jakub Jelinek
2000-03-23  6:43   ` Jan Hubicka
2000-03-23  9:09     ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-03-23 14:20       ` Jan Hubicka
2000-03-23 14:47         ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-03-24  2:22 ` Richard Henderson [this message]

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