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this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2025
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I also use it for avoiding recursive function calls. In theory, this will tell the compiler to just ditch the current stack and go back to the beginning of the function.
In civilized languages tail recursion takes care of this for you. ๐
gcc can do tail-call optimization in C, and sometimes in C++. It doesn't even have to be a recursive call, tho I do think it might depends on the calling convention.
Oh, cool! I did not know that.