tac: simplify error propagation

[Devel08]

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[github-actions]

GNU testsuite comparison:

Skip an intermittent issue tests/tail/tail-n0f (fails in this run but passes in the 'main' branch)
Skipping an intermittent issue tests/cut/bounded-memory (passes in this run but fails in the 'main' branch)
Skipping an intermittent issue tests/date/resolution (passes in this run but fails in the 'main' branch)
Skipping an intermittent issue tests/pr/bounded-memory (passes in this run but fails in the 'main' branch)

[codspeed-hq]

Merging this PR will improve performance by 3.76%

⚠️ Different runtime environments detected

Some benchmarks with significant performance changes were compared across different runtime environments,
which may affect the accuracy of the results.

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⚡ 2 improved benchmarks
✅ 355 untouched benchmarks
⏩ 50 skipped benchmarks¹

Performance Changes

	Mode	Benchmark	BASE	HEAD	Efficiency
⚡	Simulation	cksum_crc32b	39.7 ms	38.1 ms	+4.19%
⚡	Simulation	cksum_sysv	68.4 ms	66.2 ms	+3.32%

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_{Comparing Devel08:tac-simplify-error-propagation (eb3b56b) with main (36947fc)}

Footnotes

1. 50 benchmarks were skipped, so the baseline results were used instead. If they were deleted from the codebase, click here and archive them to remove them from the performance reports. ↩

[cakebaker]

Thanks!