Re: Using qsort(3) in the kernel

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

Andrew Reilly wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 06:32:15PM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
> > And not all architectures can do tail call optimizations...
>
> Really?  I thought that a tail call optimization essentially
> turned a return into a goto (plus some variable (re)binding).

Well, strictly it should replace a call followed by a return, into a 
goto. :-)

But yeah, I agree. I can't see why any architecture should (could?) make 
any difference here.

        Johnny