Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Chris Ahlstrom Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: naughty Python Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2026 07:14:54 -0500 Organization: None Lines: 27 Message-ID: <10jdljv$1ugk4$9@dont-email.me> References: <79ScnZHy-uXnP8n0nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> <4oycne7Wk4RQ6sj0nZ2dnZfqnPidnZ2d@giganews.com> <10j48fv$2t1h9$12@dont-email.me> <10j5qgf$3etcd$6@dont-email.me> <10j60bb$3hhps$1@dont-email.me> <10j6n9s$3q8au$2@dont-email.me> <10j71fr$3rnk5$1@paganini.bofh.team> <10j88fb$at2l$2@dont-email.me> <20260102084925.000040b5@gmail.com> <10j9dis$mp8i$15@dont-email.me> <10j9f57$ovkv$2@dont-email.me> <10ja075$ukrb$2@dont-email.me> Reply-To: OFeem1987@teleworm.us Injection-Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2026 12:14:56 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b0e9d0b33e51ab25e6e6635aa46b65ae"; logging-data="2048644"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18SXDyqFGzTkyDMvBoJXa+2" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:md3ZTnj1ddKUKRJlBa5wV7o1zh4= X-Slrn: Why use anything else? X-Face: 63n<76,LYJQ2m#'5YL#.T95xqyPiG`ffIP70tN+j"(&@6(4l\7uL)2+/-r0)/9SjZ`qw= Njn mr93Xrerx}aQG-Ap5IHn"xe;`5:pp"$RH>Kx_ngWw%c\+6qSg!q"41n2[.N/;Pu6q8?+Poz~e A9? $6_R7cm.l!s8]yfv7x+-FYQ|/k X-User-Agent: Microsoft Outl00k, Usenet K00k Editions X-Mutt: The most widely-used MUA Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:80463 alt.folklore.computers:233139 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. -- "Hiro has two loves, baseball and porn, but due to an elbow injury he gives up baseball...." -- AniDB description of _H2_, with selective quoting applied. http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=352