OCaml and tail recursion

[Norman Ramsey <nr@eecs.harvard.edu>]

Dear Camllists,

I have just completed my first nontrival Caml program (an implementation
of the rsync algorithm) and I am distressed about the treatment of
tail calls.  My code has to go through files one character at a time,
and as an SML programmer from way back, I wrote the code using three
mutually recursive functions that make tail calls to each other.
Imagine my surprise when I started getting errors with stack overflow!
Apparently ocamlc doesn't optimize tail calls.  I made some progress
by using ocamlopt, but I miss being able to use the debugger.
Do experienced Camllists have any suggestions?


Norman