> No action at a distance or lasagna style dereferencing or mysterious type names that are just typedef'd and #define'd around dozens of times back to something

> No action at a distance or lasagna style dereferencing or mysterious type names that are just typedef'd and #define'd around dozens of times back to something basic like char. No fancy obscure GNU preprocessor extensions or exotic programming patterns. Ah, I see you've also looked at the Linux kernel code.