From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
To: Mark Probst <schani@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc: Geoff Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: proper tail recursion for gcc
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 07:12:00 -0000
Message-id: <orzoncgaby.fsf@guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
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On Jul 20, 2000, Mark Probst <schani@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:06:08PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:

>> I think you'll find this has already been done in the development gcc.
>> It's the 'sibling call' optimisation.

> only calls to static functions are optimized

Non-static functions may be overridden if the object file is used to
create a library and a program linked with the library defines the
same symbol.

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