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The linked C source file is an excellent example of ancient C, when it was still more closer to high level assembly: https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file

• tomtomtom777 2y ago
  And when buffer overflows were (attempted to be) avoided by guestimating a large enough buffer size.
• LeFantome 2y ago
  I assume that you are referring to the liberal use of “goto”. Of course, “if”, “while”, and even “switch” are also used. Quite the mix. Directly calling into system calls (“write”) is interesting.
  • kps 2y ago
    The modern form of stdio only appear in Seventh Edition Unix.
  • quuxplusone 2y ago
    write(2) is POSIX. That's not "directly calling into a system call"; it's a normal C API from the POSIX header <unistd.h>.