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Every goto in the Linux kernel / Just another day on the linux-kernel mailing list (youtube.com)

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[–] bss03@infosec.pub 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

Oh, cool! I did not know that.