Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!pacbell!att!ihnp4!ihlpf!nevin1 From: nevin1@ihlpf.ATT.COM (00704a-Liber) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Should I convert FORTRAN code to C? Message-ID: <5236@ihlpf.ATT.COM> Date: 8 Jul 88 00:41:40 GMT References: <2742@utastro.UUCP> <4700015@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: nevin1@ihlpf.UUCP (00704a-Liber,N.J.) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 14 In article <4700015@m.cs.uiuc.edu> kenny@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes: >Recursion can *always* be >eliminated, if necessary by setting up an auxiliary stack. If you are using an auxiliary stack, then you haven't eliminated recursion, you have just moved it from being implicitly done by the function call mechanism to being explicitly done by having your program save/restore the values on your auxiliary stack. If, in all cases, you can get rid of the stack *model*, then I will agree that recursion can always be eliminated. -- _ __ NEVIN J. LIBER ..!ihnp4!ihlpf!nevin1 (312) 510-6194 ' ) ) You are in a little twisting maze of / / _ , __o ____ email paths, all different. / (_