Re: [Chicken-users] Unbounded stack growth

[Jim Ursetto]

On Jul 11, 2012, at 2:47 PM, Marc Feeley wrote:
> 
> I'm pretty sure LLVM is simply implementing the tail-call itself.  So there 
> is no stack growth in the unwinding phase.

That is possible.  We do currently disable __attribute__((noreturn))
on functions across the board when using clang, and last I checked
this caused it to generate a bunch of (unreachable) return code.
But perhaps LLVM 3 is optimizing the tall-call anyway.

Jim