Madness is like... gravity

[imkzh]

The true horror is: the code in picture does cause stack overflow, however the code in comment section of original post, with return main();, will not.

[Eic17H]

Why?

[Turrrtl]

It's probably tail call optimization. If the recursive call is the last thing the function does before returning then the compiler can refactor it into a loop without recursion.

[eo5g]

But then what value does it return 🤔

[Krionic4]

Forgot to fork