Subject: Re: Problem with a named let.
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:50:33 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3204478232455481@naggum.net>

* Tim Bradshaw <tfb@cley.com>
> So long as you don't mind your code blowing up in exciting ways when
> you port it, I guess.

  Is there a portable way to determine whether you have a tail-recursive
  function or one that allocates a new stack frame for each recursion?  Or
  is this intended to be a true, i.e., completely transparent, optimization
  that is only semi-determinable by crashes?  It would be nice if there
  were a portably implemented at best, portably interfaced at least,
  function that would return the set of optimize declarations that would
  cause a class of function calls that are statically and portably
  determinable to merit tail-recursive calls.

  Allegro CL's features is known as compiler:tail-call-self-merge-switch
  and it is easy to see when it is true.

#:Erik
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