Re: tail recusion

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From: Fergus James HENDERSON
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 12:09

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rv@cs.brown.edu (rodrigo vanegas) writes:

>Does gcc optimize tail recursion?

Only for functions with a non-void return value, where there is an explicit
	return recursive_call(...);
statement.  Tail recursion for void-valued functions and in cases like
	return (... ? ... : tail_recursive_call(...));
is not optimized.

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Fergus Henderson                     fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU

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