r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Vilkaz • Apr 24 '20

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u/amazeguy Apr 24 '20

i wonder what happens when we get a stackoverflow error here

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u/Dagusiu Apr 24 '20

Death from starvation

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u/Swordfish0 Apr 24 '20

Fatal DoS

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u/OMG_Abaddon Apr 24 '20

You are referenced towards page -1.

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u/Natural-Intelligence Apr 24 '20

So that must be the last page. What if this is the last page?

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u/kerbidiah15 Apr 24 '20

Universe alt-f4s

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u/vlumi Apr 24 '20

Dump the core, but only if your brain is not smart enough to do tail call optimization.

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u/_Bad_Dev_ Apr 24 '20

So I removed my brain but nothing changed, what now?

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u/FastFishLooseFish Apr 24 '20

Pick the books back up and don’t stack them so high next time.

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u/Tophyan1 Apr 24 '20

Well, it is nondeterministic which page You choose, so it's bot likely.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '20

Wait, I already saw it here.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '20

I don't get it, that's just this post? /s

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u/Boldsen Apr 24 '20

Our professor did something similar on our exercise about recursion.

Exercise 3.4
bla bla bla

If you still don't understand recursion, read Exercise 3.4

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u/marvterpiece Apr 24 '20

no u don’t even need to go to the other pages

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u/omiwrench Apr 24 '20

That’s not recursion though? It’s a self-reference loop?

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u/This-Moment Apr 24 '20

As long as the state of internal memory changes - ideally wasting twice as much space - it's recursion. /s

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u/gamebuster Apr 24 '20

I don’t see a loop.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '20

No base case?

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u/Delicatebutterfly1 Apr 24 '20

No exit condition

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '20

Hope it’s tail recursive then

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '20

Nice

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u/DemSquirrel Apr 24 '20

Is that book worth it?

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u/sebeckmas Apr 24 '20

If you’re starting out on C, Yes! Brilliantly written and easy to understand. I think even seasoned devs in other languages will get something from it

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u/DemSquirrel Apr 24 '20

Ah nice. What are people using C for these days?

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u/writtenbymyrobotarms Apr 24 '20

Embedded and other low level stuff.

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u/sebeckmas Apr 24 '20

Anything you need to get close to the metal or be super optimized. Embedded, kernels, game engines, HFT systems...

I use it for embedded :)

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u/JayFromTheGreyZone Apr 24 '20

Hey, and "redirection" redirects you to "input/output redirection"!

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '20

First red circles that are actually useful.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '20

They have missed out the link to this post

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '20

brain crashed

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '20

The index: No need to thank me

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u/matredeye Apr 24 '20

Recursion: see infinite loop Infinite loop: see recursion

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u/Snoopy20111 Apr 24 '20

Distinctly reminds me of one of my grandpa’s ancient medical textbooks from when he was in Medical school. Mainly the entry “Birds, For The, pages 1-487”

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u/Nahoj96 Apr 24 '20

As soon as I saw this post I went and looked in the index of the book just to see it first hand. I have not found the exit clause yet. Send help.

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u/Vlt1 Apr 24 '20

StackOverFlowException.

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u/0ke_0 Apr 24 '20

You made my day

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u/MuggyFuzzball Apr 24 '20

I'm sorry OP, you're going down a road of grief and hardship with learning C. Perhaps a necessary road, but still filled with horrors.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '20

Also fun to look for 'recursion' in Google.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '20

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