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Re: tail calls


From: Jack J. Woehr
Subject: Re: tail calls
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 15:32:19 -0600
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On 10/30/2017 2:22 PM, Doug McIlroy wrote:
Does anyone know offhand whether m4 optimizes tail calls (i.e. discards the calling
stack frame)?

Two thoughts:
  • The original authors were very hip to recursion, they were into Prolog.
  • I'll bet you reading the source code would answer your question :)
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