Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:19:34 -0500 Message-ID: <4E25D8C8.2023@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:19:36 -0400 From: pete Reply-To: pfiland@mindspring.com Organization: PF X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Fread problem References: <1b62n23pw6.fsf@snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily.net> <98lsl8FgvmU2@mid.individual.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 25 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.156.228.246 X-Trace: sv3-fZucSUxh7Fp4z03X4o0BTMWpsEZTrnbo+geaMVRokKPlif6f1gyapURdOl3bQRJyTsDpIKZPw/GtA+a!Ao5g/uL83Clm2EFHIEist6J2ROFjcjr62/jGgzPpTDjyfDKEfS77S7kgs0HRsEiA8rBMC/Gjs/ka!XgwXGxxdUhA= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2010 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c:8504 Kenneth Brody wrote: > /* > * The following line was added to hide a memory corruption bug. > * The boss says "do something ASAP to make the customer think that > * it's fixed, even if it really makes things worse". I know that > * this isn't a fix, in any sense of the word, but this is the only > * thing I can come up with that will let me keep my job. (At least > * for now.) > * > * P.S. Good thing we don't use any version control software, so I > * don't have to check in this comment under my name. > */ Here's one possible way that things might end up: Eventually, the bug really gets fixed. After the code is thoroughly tested to make sure, there's no need to go back and rewrite the code again, is there? And so, the comment remains. -- pete