On Nov 17, 2008, at 2:13 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
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.
VAX. The use of CALLS/RET instruction pretty inhibit the use of tall call optimizations since you can't guarantee the existing call frame has preserved the needed saved registers of the function you will transfer control to. And let's ignore manufacturing the needed argument list.