[erlang-questions] escript and tail recursion

[Hakan Mattsson]

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Paul Guyot wrote:

> I've just noticed that tail recursive functions in interpreted escript  
> scripts are not tail recursive at all.
> 
> Here is a sample script :
> 
> > tail_r() ->
> >     io:format("~p~n", [element(2, process_info(self(), stack_size))]),
> >     tail_r().
> >
> > main([]) ->
> >     tail_r().
> 
> The function is tail-recursive if -mode(compile) is used. Is it a  
> known limitation of escript? (this is R12B). If so, shouldn't it be  
> mentioned in the escript documentation?

Interpreted escripts will be tail recursive in next release.
Thanks for pointing this out.

/Håkan
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Håkan Mattsson (uabhams)
Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB