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Hi - On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 10:59:21PM -0800, Chen, Brad wrote: > Tail call removal doesn't only happen with recursion. It's also > common if you have a procedure that ends with a call to another > procedure that is called from only one location. [...] Actually I suspect we can get away with not dealing specially with tail/sibling calls at all. We would miss the moment of the nested call, or its own logical return, true. But there is a real return at the bottom of all those tail calls, and that would go through the target function's stored, intercepted return address. - FChE
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