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		takeda on May 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Is Nix? Maybe I'm missing the joke, but even if you use printf() in C you are using C standard library.

squid_demon on May 21, 2020 [–]

It's not a joke. I don't use printf, scanf, malloc, etc...

takeda on May 22, 2020 | [–]

What do you do?

I don't think you can make syscalls without embedding assembly into your C code.

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