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   Raul Portales (sh41@androiddev.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 10:16:55 JST Raul Portales

   TIL you can exhaust the call stack of an #MSX by not returning from a subroutine and using goto instead... or by using RETURN <line number> where that number is not on the body of the calling block.

   Something that is basically impossible to do work modern languages.

   I also learned that such stack is about 84 levels deep

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     nytpu (nytpu@tilde.zone)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 10:16:57 JST nytpu

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     @Sh41 Wait, I understand GOTO not cleaning up the return stack, but RETURN <lineno> doesn't work like tail call optimization where it pops off the return address but then jumps to the start of a different routine? A weird choice, why even allow giving a line number to a RETURN statement in the first place then?

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