[LLVMdev] Tail-calling

[Albert Graef]

Arnold Schwaighofer wrote:
> nice to see someone is using the tail call stuff. i am responsible for
> the mess (feature) ;).

Thanks a bunch. Without it, my FPL (http://pure-lang.sf.net) would be 
much less useful because it doesn't have a built-in loop construct. :)

> Tail call optimization currently (llvm 2.3) works (to varying degrees,
> see http://llvm.org/docs/CodeGenerator.html#tailcallopt)
> for x86(-64) and ppc32/64. x86 being more mature (testing) than ppc.
> ppc64 has received the least testing.

That's good news, thanks for the info!

Cheers,
Albert

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