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I think fork() is more of a PDP-7 mistake than a PDP-11 mistake. On the original UNIX system, memory was so limited that the only sane partitioning was to write the running program…

Not in C, unless at least one of the pointers were marked `restrict`.

That's even more useful because of x86's braindamanged "setcc", which only affects the lowest byte of the destination, AFAIR, and so always has to be combined with a zeroing idiom …

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You can do better. X86 has both "op [mem], reg" and "op reg, [mem]" variants of most instructions, where "[mem]" can be a register too. So you have two ways to encode "xor eax, eax…