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		marcodiego on Oct 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The C23 edition of Modern C \* what operator is this? I have never seen it. Where can I read about it?

aw1621107 on Oct 17, 2024 [–]

My guess is that it was intended to escape the * since unescaped * in regular text on HN results in italics. Since the text in question is in a code block, though, that escaping is not needed.

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