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submitted 5 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] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think generally C compilers prefer to keep the stack intact for debugging and such.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Yes, definitely. Rereading the StackOverflow, "stack compatible" just means it can mutate the stack frame in place without resizing it in the optimised code. There's a number of ways trying to handle tail (co)recursion sucks if you try and get around that. Here's a Dr. Dobbs about it.