I think it depends on the version of gcc; I tried compiling his function with 3....

		pauldino on Nov 6, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Slides from Felix von Leitner's talk on C and comp... I think it depends on the version of gcc; I tried compiling his function with 3.4.5 and it didn't look tail-call-optimized, but with -Os on 4.2.3 it did.