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Yeah, I found it hard to understand too.

Was the sarcasm the bit about the bracing, when the actual bug has nothing to do with the goto but instead is the missing post-increment (++)?

Every 'how is this possible' was sarcastic

If you follow the link at the bottom you get to a more analytical blog post: https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/thoughts-on-style-the-TLS-a...

And the context here is that OpenBSD people were really mad about OpenSSL in the aftermath of Heartbleed. It was around this time they forked it into LibreSSL.

I thought the prose was meant to be more humorous than cynical. I took it as the author cracking jokes about the simple mistakes made. Thought it was funny myself.

Yeah, the sarcasm is completely counterproductive (as it usually is). The same sentiments expressed sincerely would be a much better read