Collecting favorite bug stories
Chuck McManis
cmcmanis at sun.uucp
Wed Jan 21 08:59:51 AEST 1987
Of course there was a time when you could right a Fortran program for
TOPS-10 like so :
FOO(0.0,10)
SUBROUTINE FOO(A,B)
A = B * 3
RETURN
END
And when executed the compiler generated constant for zero was a pointer
to some known word with zero in it was changed. This affected all subsequent
references to the constant 0.0 by your program or anyone elses on the
system!
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--Chuck McManis
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These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.
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