5 ms·

It would be nice to credit this explanation to Linus.

• anothergoogler 9y ago
  Yea I mean isn't parent's comment just a ripoff of that entire thread?
  • deleted 9y ago
    [deleted]
• abhishekjha 9y ago
  No wonder I thought I had read this before.
• tbodt 9y ago
  No, I wrote it myself. I figured out how it worked from reading the C standard.