XPost: alt.folklore.computers
From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us

rbowman wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

> On Sat, 03 Jan 2026 06:09:32 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> And whether the variable is followed by some padding.  If that char[4]
>> variable is followed by, say, 4 bytes of padding, you can write up to 8
>> bytes to it and not feel a thing.  Then comes the day when you try to
>> write 9 bytes there and kaboom.  I've lost a lot of hair with those
>> ones,
>> when a program that's run fine for a couple of years suddenly dies.
>
> I have fixed bugs that were old enough to vote. Like the organisms in the
> permafrost in the plot lines of 'The Last ship' and 'Fortitude' they lay
> there in wait...
>
> 30 years ago programmers were very stingy with allocations.

I've found bugs in my own code that went unnoticed for years.

That's one good thing about refactoring or revisiting old code for
no reason.

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