Turns out, this is due to the programmer's assumption that fcb->name[8] and fcb->ext[3] can be accessed contiguously by fcb->name[0..10]. So, the code is actually "lazy", if not bad. Obviously, this has worked in C for a long time but no longer can be depended on.
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