Re: GOTO controversy

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From: habit
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 05:42

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Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <oun34tm3c7.fsf@lynx.cs.byu.edu> hall@cs.byu.edu "Kelly Hall" writes:
>
>>>>>>> "Lawrence" == Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>    Lawrence> An O(log N) stack depth is generally not a problem. I
>>    Lawrence> guess you could say that is finite because there are
>>    Lawrence> typically practical upper bounds to N.
>>
>>Tail recursion is implemented by all non-stupid compilers the same way
>>as the imperative (goto) version.  Gcc will do this, whether or not
>>your favorite compiler will is a different matter.
>>
>>No stack problems at all.
>
>Code that relies on compiler optimisations (which C doesn't guarantee) to
>even work at all is at best highly suspect and at worst plain broken. In
>some cases it is company policy to compile with optimisations turned off,
>this should not cause code to blow up.
>
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>Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
>Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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