[Gcl-devel] Re: sibling call optimization

[Andrew Pinski]

On May 4, 2004, at 14:08, Camm Maguire wrote:

> Greetings!  We are investigating gcc sibling call optimization in GCL
> (a lisp system compiling to C).  A few questions arise:
>
> 1) I notice that the optimization is apparently disabled when the call
>    is made through a pointer variable.  Is this a permanent
>    limitation?

The limitation was fixed on x86 for 3.4.0.  For PPC the limitation is
still there. For other targets I do not know.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski