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dropbear3

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    Comment #45573204

    There are the following codepoints: U+0049 I LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I U+0069 i LATIN SMALL LETTER I U+0130 İ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE U+0131 ı LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS…

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    Comment #42555899

    This is not true of adjacent bitfields, at least for C99: An implementation may allocate any addressable storage unit large enough to hold a bit-field. If enough space remains, a b…

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    Comment #42555511

    > How would you do [packed structs] in C? Bitfields! This is valid C: struct foo { unsigned bg_priority: 2; unsigned character_base: 2; // ... };

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    Comment #36530619

    {0} is standard C. {} is currently a (common) compiler extension but will be standard C23: https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n2900.htm

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    Comment #30951711

    > Occam's razor says that tooling, or developers, just aren't great at shaking unreferenced content from production builds. The Cutting Room Floor[0] is an empirical proof of this …

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    Comment #29942491

    And the corollary, "In theory, theory and practice are the same thing. In practice..."

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    Comment #29426115

    Are those mutually exclusive? Modern society can be a systemic trainwreck and still be better than what came before.