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From: Brad Lucier <lucier@math.purdue.edu>
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Subject: Re: investigation of tail calls on mainline
To: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson)
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> Well, computed gotos may work properly, but the program that you attached
> also made use of global register variables, and global register variables
> don't work properly.

Global register variables are not really necessary; -fPIC or -fpic may be,
unfortunately.

Brad