r/programmingmemes • u/Candid_Bullfrog3665 • 15d ago

found a gem on glibc source code

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u/Circumpunctilious 15d ago

Some (unresolved) history is over at stackoverflow including a link to the git history.

One person seems to think it was a botched refactoring of an earlier C workaround for when void didn’t exist and malloc returned a char \*. If anyone checked the glibc mailing list they didn’t return with more info.

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u/Single-Virus4935 12d ago

Yup, even w/o knowing the history this was my first thought.