A very "strange" bug in gcc 2.96

[Ulrich Drepper]

"H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> If we take it out, it may disappoint some people. I'd prefer to turn
> it on with a flag.

I don't care if it disappoints anybody.  If smoething is broken it
does not deserve to be preserved.  Especially since it hurts 99.9% of
the applications which are not broken.  Just document it and let
people disable the sibling call optimization.

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