Re: Help on code generation and register allocation

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
17 Feb 2006 00:10:15 -0500

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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 17 Feb 2006 00:10:15 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 06-02-055 06-02-072 06-02-088 06-02-096 06-02-103
Keywords: optimize, GCC
Posted-Date: 17 Feb 2006 00:10:15 EST

* Ulrich Hobelmann:


> If tail recursion were completely target independent (and an
> optimization), I don't see why not all compilers would Just Do It.
> Especially GCC in Intel doesn't do it (except maybe for
> self-tail-recursion),


GCC does perform tail-call optimization on i386 for the SYSV ABI
(non-PIC). The calling convention is quite unproblematic in this
regard. Other architectures feature things like caller-saved
registers which are clobbered by inter-module calls, and tail calls
conforming to the platform ABI are very hard (if not impossible).



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