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torbenm@diku.dk (Torben AEgidius Mogensen) writes:

>Afeature I have sorely missed in compilers for C etc. is a cheap
>tail-call: if the last thing you do in a procedure or function is to
>call a procedure or function, this can be implemented as a goto rather
>than a general procedure/function call. Also, the local variables of

What do you mean? What if the tail-called function then tries to call
another function or (even worse) recurses? This could only work if
the tail-called function expected to recieve *exactly* the stack frame
that the tail-caller has had set up when it was called.

And remember that Acorn's C compiler (the ARM proc. call std.?) is clever
enough to notice when you call a function that does not call another (a
leaf function), and does not bother with most of the context-storing
operations involved in normal function calls.

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