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submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Please leave recursion to math and keep it out of (in particular C) software: it kills and will kill again.

Kind regards from libexpat, see CVE-2022-25313 and CVE-2024-8176 for proof.

https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/expat-2-7-0-released/

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I did it the other way around in uni, we got a task with no mention of it requiring recursion (even though I suppose it was somewhat well suited to it). I solved it with a double for loop and the teacher refused to accept my submission.

This was a coding class on Unix thinclients, I'll let you guess how long ago.

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3 years

edit: thx [email protected] for making the spoiler work :)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

The spoiler syntax is a bit different.

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For example:

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3 years