On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Reza Roboubi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe gcc treats all function calls as fairly sacred and doesn't really > optimize across function calls much. For example, the pcre(regex) library > creates it's own stack frames and "simulates" the entire function recursion > to overcome this (and I think it has to, otherwise big inefficiencies would > result.) > > Are there plans to add this feature to gcc?
GCC does tail recursion optimization. What more general optimization are you looking for? Your description isn't very specific. Richard. > Thanks a lot. > > Reza. >
