On Thursday, February 02, 2012 18:17:36 bearophile wrote: > Timon Gehr: > > This is not a tail-recursive function. And neither is recFactorial, my > > bad. Anyway, my point was that the compiler should not generate code > > that blows up on a (in principle) perfectly sane implementation. > > Is it possible to create a function attribute like @tail_recursive that > produces a compile error if you apply it to a function that's not > tail-recursive?
I suspect that Walter would feel the same way about that that he feels about something like marking functions as inline - i.e. that sort of thing should be left up to the compiler to optimize or not as it sees appropriate. - Jonathan M Davis
