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by nixpulvis
2283 days ago
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Using the "file length" as opposed to the "EOF indicator" is like how strings can either be represented as pointer to a contiguous sequence of `char` ending with a NULL byte, or as a tuple of (length, pointer), without the needed NULL byte. One gives a priori information the other a posteriori. |
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