C appreciation thread

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C is what God programmed our universe in. Post your C appreciation, hints, tips, & tricks itt


When Bjarne Stroustrup used to talk about the free-store I always thought new was overloaded to just use malloc. Then I discovered the main difference between new and malloc(): the C function doesn't set up C++ virtual tables so you get a read violation

here's a neat trick for detecting big endian system

const union { long one; char little; } is_endian = {1}; 
if (!is_endian.little)

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