[Mono-devel-list] tailcall support in mcs

[Paolo Molaro]

On 09/14/03 Michal Moskal wrote:
> Is outputting tallcalls done or planned in mcs? I'm working on
> functional language implementation. I'm generating C# (for now, later
> I'll switch to ilasm or bytecode), so lack of tailcalls is very
> annoying.

The jit will automatically do tail recursion elimination in some cases
(more cases can be easily added). The same code can be extended to do
tail calls. You need to use the -O=tailc option to enable the feature.
Help with implementing and testing the additional cases is welcome.
I don't think adding tail call detection to mcs (or as a feature of the
C# language) is worth it. Hopefully the MS JIT guys will catch up
by the next version and tail call elimination will be a feature of all
the JITs;-)

lupus

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