> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:51:10AM +0200, Andreas Rossberg wrote:
> 
> Many ocaml programs depend on tail-call elimination, although I don't
> believe anything in the docs requires it to be done.
> 

Well, when programming in caml, I use the following rules (which I hope to be
accurate!)

+ ocamlc does perform tail call elimation
+ ocamlopt does it less often. Namely, calls in tail position
  become real tail calls when all their arguments are passed in registers.
  (This does not apply to self-tail calls which are always optimized)

  On pentiums/x86/IA32 this means that tail calls are performed when the callee
  has four arguments or less (if I remember well).


--Luc

> Dave
> 

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