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From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)
Subject: Re: No Go To's Forever!
Date: 2000/04/18
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On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:33:38 +1000, Dale Stanbrough <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
>Robert Dewar wrote:
>
>> (a good compiler will convert such
>> a tail recursion to the goto in any case)
>
>
>I suppose the stand out question is...
>
>   "is gnat a good compiler?"

Current versions of gnat will do some, but not a whole lot of tail
recursion. Future versions based on gcc 3.0 will be better at this,
or so I am lead to believe. You can always make some sample programs
and dump to assembly and check if it does where you need it to.

-- 
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with
square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are.
   -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU