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		ptsneves on Oct 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte It also affected eMacs compilation and the fix is in the trunk now. Wow 11 years for such a banal minimal code trigger. I really don’t quiet understand how we can have the scale of infrastructure in operation when this kind of infrastructure software bugs exist. This is not just gcc. All the working castle of cards is an achievement by itself and also a reminder that good enough is all that is needed. I also highly doubt you could get a 1 in 1000 developers to successfully debug this issue were it happening in the wild, and much smaller to actually fix it.

Negitivefrags on Oct 18, 2024 [–]

If you think that’s bad let me tell you about the time we ran into a bug in memmove.

It had to be an unaligned memmove and using a 32 bit binary on a 64 bit system, but still! memmove!

And this bug existed for years.

This caused our database replicas to crash every week or so for a long time.

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