>> Can somebody interpret this for me?
>>
>>   while (TRUE) { cont = (*cont)(); }
>>
>> What on earth...?
> 
> cont is a pointer to a function that is expected to return a pointer to 
> a function.  The code here causes a series of functions to be called, 
> each one specifying another function to be called afterwards by 
> returning the address of the function to be called.

Ah, so it *is* possible to read C? :-)

So cont points to a zero-argument function that returns a zero-argument 
function? And this loop just calls it repeatedly?

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