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| Tail recursion strohm@airmail.net (2000-08-10) |
| Re: Tail recursion pfaffben@msu.edu (Ben Pfaff) (2000-08-13) |
| Re: Tail recursion danwang+news@cs.princeton.edu (Daniel C. Wang) (2000-08-14) |
| Re: Tail recursion toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene) (2000-08-14) |
| Re: Tail recursion fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (2000-08-21) |
| Re: Tail recursion Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com (Wilco Dijkstra) (2000-08-21) |
| Re: Tail recursion mrs@kithrup.com (2000-08-21) |
| Re: Tail recursion ian0kerr@my-deja.com (2000-09-08) |
| Tail recursion Alexey.Mikhailov@gmail.com (jjb) (2006-11-04) |
| Re: Tail recursion kym@ukato.freeshell.org (russell kym horsell) (2006-11-04) |
| [3 later articles] |
| From: | Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | 14 Aug 2000 17:35:40 -0400 |
| Organization: | Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands |
| References: | 00-08-054 00-08-071 |
| Keywords: | optimize |
Ben Pfaff wrote
> strohm@airmail.net (John R. Strohm) writes:
> > Do any of the commonly-available compilers for "mainstream" languages
> > do tail recursion optimization? In particular, any C, c++, or Ada
> > compilers?
> The GCC compiler suite does tail recursion optimization at least
> for C and C++ and probably for its other languages as well.
Probably not for Fortran (g77), because the language g77 compiles (a -
small - superset of Fortran 77) does not admit recursion.
However, it might well be that the compiler doesn't recognise mutual
recursion (P calls Q which calls P) and happily generates code for it
that just *might* work :-(
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