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lilbigdoot
42 days ago
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Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (...
If my program crashes without it, that's a semantic difference no?
qsera
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You program did not ask for the crash via the language constructs..semantics is defined by the language, rest is the implementation details. That is how it makes sense to me. I don't understand other people in this thread who think otherwise.
layer8
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Not in the sense of formal programming-language semantics, usually.
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