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Good laughs chasing links:

- Simon Chatham: "PuTTY is a Win32 Telnet and SSH client. The SSH protocol code contains real-life use of this coroutine trick. As far as I know, this is the worst piece of C hackery ever seen in serious production code." http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html

- Tom Duff: "Yeah. I knew this. In my piece about The Device, I mention something about a similar trick for interrupt-driven state machines that is too horrible to go into. This is what I was referring to." http://brainwagon.org/2005/03/05/coroutines-in-c/#comment-18...




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