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Subject: Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE)
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Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> writes:
> Here's an example where an overzealous but standards-conforming optimization
> introduced a security bug:
> http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/issues/detail?id=245

In that particular example, the refactored code simply looks wrong.