Re: Tail recursion in Java, was Proper Tail Recursive C++

hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker)
3 Apr 1997 14:03:23 -0500

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From: hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker)
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Date: 3 Apr 1997 14:03:23 -0500
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  > Surely the compiler has to apply the same policy statically as would
  > be applied dynamically.


"John D. Ramsdell" <ramsdell@linus.mitre.org> wrote:
> How does a Java VM know that the code it is running is produced by a
> compiler?
>
> I think part of the reason Java implementations are not required to be
> tail recursive is to ease the tranlation of Java programs into raw C.
> Scheme-to-C does not produce truly tail recursive implementations of
> Scheme programs, I guess Sun did not want a semantic gap between Java
> VM's and C translations.


Tail recursion in C:


ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/CheneyMTA.html (also .ps.Z)
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