> VC7.1, with normal Release settings, will do tail end recursion for
Thanks. I have only tried V5 and V6. Neither have I tried the new gcc
that uses the single assignment intermediate form.
Gene
Gene wrote:
> Indeed the C/C++ compilers I've used lately don't eliminate tail
> recursion. GCC used to do it, but later versions don't seem to work.
> MS Visual C has never worked. On the other hand, all functional
> language compilers are similar in this respect to Scheme. They need to
> be
Indeed the C/C++ compilers I've used lately don't eliminate tail
recursion. GCC used to do it, but later versions don't seem to work.
MS Visual C has never worked. On the other hand, all functional
language compilers are similar in this respect to Scheme. They need to
be since tail recursion is
This is interesting you say this (and very timely), because in a C++
data structures course I'm taking, we're creating recursive box trace
diagrams. Even in tail-recursive functions, we draw it such that the
stack keeps on growing. So I'm curious if we draw it this way because:
1. you can never c
There is a lot of work on this in the literature on functional
languages, where rewriting recursions can lead to aymptotic speedups.
Often the idea is to get from a general recursion to tail recursion in
order to avoid stack growth and value copying.
