Basile Starynkevitch wrote: 
> Eray Ozkural wrote:
> 
> Compiling Ocaml to efficient C is not easy and probably impossible (or
> extremely difficult) in the general case. In
> particular, tail recursive calls are essential in Ocaml, and are not
> available in C in most compilers.

What's this based on (out of interest)? Most C compilers don't necessarily
identify tail recursion in *C* code but if you're emitting C as an OCaml
backend then there's no reason not to convert tail recursive *OCaml*
functions to C code based on goto or similar looping constructs (yes, you'd
almost-always-virtually-never use goto in a hand-crafted C program without
apologising profusely at Dijkstra's grave but if you're using C as an
intermediate language then that's a different matter). If I recall correctly
from an old post on this list, this is how Felix handles tail recursion when
translating Felix to C++


David