Angry ComSci Prof. noises (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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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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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year 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.

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