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Compiling tail-calls to simple C?I'm writing a Lisp-to-C compiler, trying to keep compiler and runtime very simple and close to C, because I want to embed the language into C applications, and use C libraries. My closures are structs with a C function pointer and an environment. Ideally, I'd like the language to be properly tail-recursive like Scheme; however, without resorting to techniques like trampolines, Cheney on the M.T.A., or putting the whole program into one function, it seems that the only possible thing is what BitC does:
What do you think about this restriction? Does anyone have experience with the new tail call optimization of GCC, especially when making an indirect call via a function pointer? By Manuel J. Simoni at 2007-01-21 02:20 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 10712 reads
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