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>>>>> "H" == Harvey J Stein <hjstein@bfr.co.il> writes: H> C compilers *cannot* be properly tail recursive without a change in H> calling conventions because the caller pushes & pops args off the H> stack. That is not a C requirement, so on some machines you could very easily make things tail recursive. I'm not sure about doing it on machines which do use the stack for that... it's my gut feeling that it could be done, but.... -- Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - By consent of the corrupted Remember the good old days, when CPU was singular?