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Re: Can main() be called by itself?

From Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Can main() be called by itself?
Date 2015-08-14 11:15 -0700
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Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> writes:
[...]
> Without knowing what your code is supposed to do, I can't tell you how
> to make it do it.  But the big problem with this code is that its
> recursion is infinite -- it will call itself, which will call itself,
> which will.... until you run out of memory.
[...]

With an implementation that does sufficiently clever tail-call
optimization, it might merely be an infinite loop that does not consume
unbounded memory.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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Can main() be called by itself? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2015-08-13 16:51 -0700
  Re: Can main() be called by itself? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-08-14 01:58 +0200
  Re: Can main() be called by itself? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-08-13 23:32 -0400
    Re: Can main() be called by itself? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-08-14 11:14 -0700
  Re: Can main() be called by itself? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-08-13 22:14 -0600
    Re: Can main() be called by itself? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-08-14 11:15 -0700
  Re: Can main() be called by itself? gordonb.mj8yu@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2015-08-14 01:52 -0500
    Re: Can main() be called by itself? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-14 11:46 +0100
      Re: Can main() be called by itself? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-08-14 07:54 -0400
        Re: Can main() be called by itself? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-08-14 14:19 +0200
          Re: Can main() be called by itself? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-08-14 14:50 +0200
            Re: Can main() be called by itself? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-16 10:39 -0700
      Re: Can main() be called by itself? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2015-08-14 12:32 +0000

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