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Re:A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29... by asveikau on Monday August 17, 2020 @04:15PM (#24191499)
> I don’t think GNU patch shares history with Larry Wall’s original.

Seems extremely unlikely to me that someone would independently write that if statement almost identically, with the same comment. These are very clearly descended from the same source.

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Re:A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29... by kazinator on Monday August 17, 2020 @04:17PM (#24191513)
... in a function having the same name, with a goto to an identical label name, and an error message string literal with exactly the same text, all in a file also named pch.c ...
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