mormegil

joined 1 year ago
[–] mormegil@programming.dev 76 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Tells you exactly what and at which line the problem is?

Syntax error: unmatched thing in thing from std::nonstd::__map<_Cyrillic, _$$$dollars>const basic_string<epic_mystery,mongoose_traits<char>, __default_alloc_<casual_Fridays = maybe>>

[–] mormegil@programming.dev 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Sure, strtok is a terrible misfeature, a relic of ancient times, but it's plainly the heritage of C, not C++ (just like e.g. strcpy). The C++ problems are things like braced initialization list having different meaning depending on the set of available constructors, or the significantly non-zero cost of various abstractions, caused by strange backward-compatible limitations of the standard/ABI definitions, or the distinctness of vector<bool> etc.

[–] mormegil@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

Int3 is a special single-byte (CC, if I recall correctly) form of the INT instruction (which is CD imm8, I think) to raise an interrupt. Interrupt #3 is the debugging interrupt, so by overwriting any instruction with CC, you place a breakpoint there.

[–] mormegil@programming.dev 9 points 4 months ago

Beware the DWIM!

In one notorious incident, Warren added a DWIM feature to the command interpreter used at Xerox PARC. One day another hacker there typed delete *$ to free up some disk space. (The editor there named backup files by appending $ to the original file name, so he was trying to delete any backup files left over from old editing sessions.) It happened that there weren't any editor backup files, so DWIM helpfully reported *$ not found, assuming you meant 'delete *'. It then started to delete all the files on the disk!

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html

[–] mormegil@programming.dev 31 points 5 months ago

It's not as easy as it sounds, sometimes the screens are all wrong!! https://xkcd.com/722/

[–] mormegil@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

That's against the terms of math :-)

[–] mormegil@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it's working now for me as well, probably just some temporary problem.

[–] mormegil@programming.dev 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, that's why unlocalize.com exists (or... existed? Dunno, seems down from here!) Or you can have used the official Microsoft Language Portal... until they removed it and replaced it with the worse https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/reference/microsoft-language-resources (but it's still usable, I guess...)

[–] mormegil@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It will not "overflow". Signed integer overflow is undefined behavior. The compiler could remove the whole loop or do anything else imaginable (or not).

 

After choosing what I wanted to do in the first step of the developer satisfaction survey, I have to check that I did complete the task successfully (presumably thanks to their great support website), otherwise, I cannot continue, “This question requires an answer”.

view more: next ›