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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