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Haha. Your comment is so complex it needs another XKCD comic just to make sure all those [-1], (2), 1., [1]'s etc. don't get mixed up.


That's because it was the in-depth, technical explanation of the comic. Based on the GP's comment, the comic is exactly accurate.


If it helps, the numbers in parantheses after read, malloc, calloc etc. are referring to the page number in the man pages.

e.g typing `man 2 read` into the shell on a Unix system will give you information about the read system call.

2's are for system calls, 3's are for members of the C standard library (usually).


Here you go: http://xkcd.com/1208/




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