[Cryptography] tail recursion in C [was Re: "NSA-linked Cisco exploit poses bigger threat than previously thought"]

[Ron Garret]

On Aug 27, 2016, at 9:00 AM, Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> wrote:

> There are clever ways to do "tail recursion" in C:

“Clever” != “portable”.  Remember, the topic at hand is whether or not C is a “good portable assembler.”  It’s not.  It is true that C can often be pressed into service to do things it was not designed for given the right combination of cleverness and compiler-specific hacks, but that is a different question.

rg