Re: Using C as a back end

gneuner@dyn.com (George Neuner) writes:


>Another way would be to bundle all the state variables into a
>structure and generate a separate, one parameter function for each
>verilog statement which explicitly tail calls the next function. Also
>sounds stupid, but GCC will *sometimes* understand this and optimize
>the function calls away.


Last time I looked, GCC was only capable of doing last call optimization
for functions that tail-call themselves (and even then only in some cases).
So this approach would result in a stack leak.
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