C is a deceptive language. At that time, I had been programing in C for 20 years so I thought I knew it. No. I only knew the little subset that I routinely used. I’m still discovering bizarre clauses in the C standards.
I just want to highlight this bit in case anyone comes along and only reads the comments, not the full interview.
He doesn’t talk about it there, but this is the same Xavier Leroy who wrote LinuxThreads, the default POSIX Threads implementation on Linux up to 2.6.
I just want to highlight this bit in case anyone comes along and only reads the comments, not the full interview.