X-Body-Begin X-User-Header htdig_noindex This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project . /htdig_noindex X-User-Header-End X-TopPNI htdig_noindex Index Nav: [ Date Index ] [ Subject Index ] [ Author Index ] [ Thread Index ] Message Nav: [ Date Prev ] [ Date Next ] [ Thread Prev ] [ Thread Next ] Other format: [ Raw text ] /htdig_noindex X-TopPNI-End X-MsgBody X-Subject-Header-Begin X-Subject-Header-End X-Head-of-Message From : Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU> To : gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org Date : Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:59:10 +1000 Subject : sibcall/tailcall terminology X-Head-of-Message-End X-Head-Body-Sep-Begin X-Head-Body-Sep-End X-Body-of-Message Currently the GCC sources are rather confused/confusing with regard to the terminology used for the different kinds of tail recursion and sibling call optim...