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(@) is not documented as non tail recursive in pervasives.mli #7057

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vicuna opened this issue Nov 24, 2015 · 2 comments
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(@) is not documented as non tail recursive in pervasives.mli #7057

vicuna opened this issue Nov 24, 2015 · 2 comments
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vicuna commented Nov 24, 2015

Original bug ID: 7057
Reporter: furuse
Assigned to: @alainfrisch
Status: closed (set by @alainfrisch on 2015-11-25T16:49:01Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: low
Severity: text
Version: 4.02.3
Fixed in version: 4.03.0+dev / +beta1
Category: standard library
Tags: junior_job
Monitored by: @hcarty

Bug description

list.mli states append and (@) are not tail recursive, but (@) itself is simply explained "List concatenation" in pervasives.mli.

(@) itself must be documented not tail recursive.

I saw someone stucked by the non tail recursiveness of (@):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33881792/cps-merge-sort-causes-a-stack-overflow
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vicuna commented Nov 24, 2015

Comment author: @hcarty

A (very very) simple GPR is available here: #309

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vicuna commented Nov 25, 2015

Comment author: @alainfrisch

Commit 3cbeede on trunk.

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