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pcmonk on Feb 2, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: ‘Abusing’ the C switch statement – beauty is in th...

Can you point to the usage of Duff's device there? I'm not really seeing it.

iainmerrick on Feb 2, 2017 [–]

Following footnotes on Wikipedia led me to this nice clear explanation: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html

mzs on Feb 2, 2017 | [–]

Thank you, when I saw this blog post it reminded me that years ago I had seen something similar but even more brain melting - it was PuTTY!

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