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<ais523> ` printf \'#include <stdio.h>\\nint main(void) { float C = 4.0; printf("%%f", C/C++); }\' | gcc -fno-diagnostics-color -Wall -Wextra -x c /dev/stdin
author HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org>
date Thu, 19 Sep 2019 17:56:36 +0000
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Block devices are a concession made in Unix to make raw hard disks and magnetic tape have a similar interface to regular files and terminals. Since magnetic tapes can't write individual bytes, only entire blocks, the interface isn't exactly the same, thus the dreaded dd obs= option was born.