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?

Bye,
bearophile

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