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Peak code reuse (eviltoast.org)

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[-] sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 77 points 1 month ago

Yep, this will cause a stack overflow.

[-] rovingnothing29@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

A mod will appear in my office and claim my problem is a duplicate when it's not?

[-] Mad_Punda@feddit.org 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Might very well be an endless loop because tail recursion can be optimized to reuse the stack frame. Depends on a lot of things of course.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~Hm, stack overflow is basically a forkbomb in programming?~~ ok, bullshit.

[-] orhtej2@eviltoast.org 21 points 1 month ago

Forkbomb kills the entire system so not really.

With the stack overflow the runtime will gracefully terminate the program.

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