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[bearophile]

Frits van Bommel:

>[LDC] [1]: It currently does not realize the array load can be done before the function call, but I submitted a patch to LLVM for that. (This is why it currently needs to be split up, so that LDC emits the load before the function call)<

I guess you mean this:
http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=4323
It seems they are accepting such changes of yours, you are good :-)


>Note that if the accumulator is introduced manually, the tail recursion indeed gets eliminated by DMD (and turned into a loop).<

Very good, thank you for modifying the code.
I have done a similar error two times...
I'll change the LiveJournal post ASAP.

Bye and thank you,
bearophile