Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: naughty Python Date: 3 Jan 2026 20:38:32 GMT Lines: 14 Message-ID: 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ZxsRJAcd4YW7x+PBW7PyFgrSct1Q8JRjXGNc8BNNxO6RiyMcKJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:oxlQlRbKU/jRwr7eAcai/RXt3KI= sha256:3WSGzoRCofhX1ELc9SpEmlHcB1J8hFWPofVnMDDrAbA= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:80430 alt.folklore.computers:233128 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.