It's not wrong. Guy just wrote a bad implementation of fread and blamed everyone else.
replyHe didn't write it.
replyThe C runtime authors did (presumably Microsoft, if it's MSVCRT).
He's hooking into ReadFile, a layer below the stdlib. By the time it reaches the hook, it's already split.
fread should be buffered, but different values may cause buffering at different rates. Perhaps it didn't generate 65535 calls to ReadFile but it generated 16 or 64.
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