hi all hope you are well. Just an interesting question I have for you all - What is the most irritating bug in an implementation you have encountered? By irritating I mean the longest to fix/the most complex to fix/the most unsatisfying fix and so forth. I shall divulge mine when I have decided on which I found the most irritating! (I am indecisive at times!)
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Jump to PostThe most irritating bug I've encountered is mixing up << and >> in C++ iostream operations. It's irritating because I do it all too often and I know better.
>the longest to fix
Probably intermittent data corruption in a very complicated parser. It took me forever to find the …
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Jump to PostThe most irritating and longest bug to fix was in a MS-DOS 6.X program. I had my own multi-threading kernel and several threads. One thread would set the value of a global integer and another thread would read it. One of the threads (foreground screen) would occationally lock up and …
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