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		cryptonector on July 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “What the Hardware Does” Is Not What Your Program ... I expect the compiler would optimize the tail recursion into a loop, so the likely worst case is not that you blow the stack but that you spin for a while.

rini17 on July 16, 2019 [–]

Not really, any expectations here are unsupported by C standards. Compiler is, by spec, allowed to do anything here.

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