http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54770
--- Comment #5 from Andy Jost <andy.m.jost at gmail dot com> 2012-10-02 15:25:46 UTC --- Most of the technical discussion is over my head, I'm afraid. Is there a simple workaround? What if the body of H contains only a call to a non-inlineable function to do its work and then the recursive call back to H? For those of us using GCC to compile a functional language, tail recursion is a requirement. We either need to make sure the compiler uses it every time, or resort to more manual methods. The option to specify a required sibling call would be ideal (see http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52067).
