I'll help. A call to `stpcpy` that ignores the return value can be swapped with a call to the (more likely to be optimized) `strcpy`. Since that's infinite recursion, and there is no forward progress, it's undefined behavior and anything goes.
This isn't just theory, it actually broke things in practice for me.
I actually encountered it a couple weeks ago.
Can you spot the infinite loop in this function?
I'll help. A call to `stpcpy` that ignores the return value can be swapped with a call to the (more likely to be optimized) `strcpy`. Since that's infinite recursion, and there is no forward progress, it's undefined behavior and anything goes.
This isn't just theory, it actually broke things in practice for me.