Segment violation (was Re: Why I could not cast string to int?)

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, February 02, 2012 18:17:36 bearophile wrote:
> Timon Gehr:
> > This is not a tail-recursive function. And neither is recFactorial, my
> > bad. Anyway, my point was that the compiler should not generate code
> > that blows up on a (in principle) perfectly sane implementation.
> 
> Is it possible to create a function attribute like @tail_recursive that
> produces a compile error if you apply it to a function that's not
> tail-recursive?

I suspect that Walter would feel the same way about that that he feels about 
something like marking functions as inline - i.e. that sort of thing should be 
left up to the compiler to optimize or not as it sees appropriate.

- Jonathan M Davis