I seem to recall some sort of mechanism that someone coded in C++ to prevent discarding the return value of a function. But I can't remember what it was, or quite for certain if I'm remembering it ...

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Apply modern C++ to that module. Use constexpr for configuration constants. Replace raw arrays with std::array. Wrap resource ...