From: arzobispo.andante@aa.invalid (Arzobispo Andante)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is the best way to navigate #ifdef and #endif in C program
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:59:55 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1jmplyd.maage8wg5hluN%arzobispo.andante@aa.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ec393a0c-91ad-4f23-9088-362140b6ccd5@x21g2000yqa.googlegroups.com
Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can macros really add features or can they just add syntactic sugar? A
> custom "case" statement is just syntactic sugar, tail call
> optimization is a feature.
I can see no reason why a macro could not transform tail-recursive code
into iterative code. That would basically achieve the same observable
effect of TCO, i.e. getting rid of stack growth.
--
AA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-04 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-03 0:31 What is the best way to navigate #ifdef and #endif in C program Daniel (Youngwhan)
2010-08-04 4:45 ` [OT] " Fren Zeee
2010-08-04 10:27 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-08-04 10:38 ` Alessio Stalla
2010-08-04 11:57 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-08-04 14:37 ` Elena
2010-08-04 14:59 ` Arzobispo Andante [this message]
2010-08-04 15:09 ` Peter Keller
2010-08-04 15:35 ` Peter Keller
2010-08-05 19:04 ` Elena
2010-08-05 21:10 ` Peter Keller
2010-08-05 23:46 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <8c27aoFij2U1@mid.individual.net>
2010-08-06 11:17 ` Elena
2010-08-06 13:55 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-08-04 16:20 ` Elena
2010-08-04 16:23 ` Elena
2010-08-05 18:00 ` Emmy Noether
2010-08-06 4:59 ` [OT] " Aaron W. Hsu
2010-08-05 17:30 ` Johan Bockgård
2010-08-06 17:03 ` Alan Mackenzie
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