From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
To: law@redhat.com
Cc: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar), fjh@cs.mu.oz.au, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: forcing tail/sibling call optimization
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200011271604.LAA22258@mal-ach.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32243.975340713@upchuck>
>>>>> Jeffrey A Law writes:
Jeff> Instead of tagging the return itself, couldn't we use an attribute which
Jeff> would (in effect) tell the optimizer that any tail call in the function
Jeff> is safe to optimize? Yes, we lose the ability to specify that a specific
Jeff> call site is safe to optimize, but we don't have to invent yet another
Jeff> GCC extension of dubious value.
I completely agree that this should be implemented using the GCC
Extension of function attributes and not a new call-site keyword.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-27 8:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-26 8:14 Robert Dewar
2000-11-26 13:43 ` Fergus Henderson
2000-11-27 7:58 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-27 8:05 ` David Edelsohn [this message]
2000-11-27 8:07 ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-27 8:25 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-27 8:39 ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-27 9:48 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-27 11:21 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2000-11-27 10:54 ` Mark Mitchell
2000-11-27 8:38 ` Bernd Schmidt
2000-11-27 11:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-27 10:48 ` Mark Mitchell
2000-11-27 12:46 ` Harvey J. Stein
2000-11-27 13:02 ` Travis Moulton
2000-11-27 10:47 ` Mark Mitchell
2000-11-28 19:21 ` Fergus Henderson
2000-11-29 2:09 ` Mark Mitchell
2000-11-30 23:59 ` Fergus Henderson
2000-12-01 15:51 ` Joe Buck
2001-01-03 12:24 ` Fergus Henderson
2001-01-03 13:09 ` Richard Henderson
2001-01-03 14:59 ` Fergus Henderson
2001-01-03 15:32 ` Richard Henderson
2001-01-03 15:53 ` Fergus Henderson
2001-01-03 16:11 ` Richard Henderson
2001-01-03 16:36 ` Fergus Henderson
2002-09-14 23:35 ` Fergus Henderson
2002-09-16 9:26 ` Richard Henderson
2000-11-27 23:39 ` Fergus Henderson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-29 4:58 Robert Dewar
2000-11-27 15:33 Mike Stump
2000-11-27 10:04 Robert Dewar
2000-11-27 9:39 Geert Bosch
2000-11-27 12:06 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-27 9:08 Robert Dewar
2000-11-27 9:14 ` Bernd Schmidt
2000-11-27 10:09 ` Michael Matz
2000-11-27 8:44 Robert Dewar
2000-11-27 9:44 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-27 10:22 ` Mark Probst
2000-11-27 14:42 ` Harvey J. Stein
2000-11-27 16:07 ` Mark Probst
2000-11-27 14:30 ` Harvey J. Stein
2000-11-26 18:09 Robert Dewar
2000-11-26 15:46 Robert Dewar
2000-11-26 16:21 ` Joseph S. Myers
2000-11-26 18:08 ` Fergus Henderson
2000-11-26 21:50 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-26 15:27 Robert Dewar
2000-11-26 17:56 ` Fergus Henderson
2000-11-26 10:59 Timothy J. Wood
2000-11-26 9:12 Geert Bosch
2000-11-26 8:21 Robert Dewar
2000-11-26 13:51 ` Fergus Henderson
2000-11-26 5:00 Robert Dewar
2000-11-26 7:44 ` Fergus Henderson
2000-11-26 8:18 ` Bernd Schmidt
2000-11-26 9:55 ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-26 11:34 ` Per Bothner
2000-11-26 11:55 ` Mark Probst
2000-11-26 17:40 ` Fergus Henderson
2000-11-26 3:56 Fergus Henderson
2000-11-26 5:22 ` Mark Probst
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