bugs

Replace PHP's realpath()

Apparently, realpath is very buggy. In PHP 5.3.1, it causes random crashes. In 5.3.0 and less, realpath randomly fails and returns false (for the same string of course), plus it always fails on realpath-ing the same string twice/more (and of course, it works the first time). Also, it is so buggy in earlier PHP versions, that it is compl...

Android screen orientation bug

I am using android HTC HERO 2.1 version. The activity I write : <activity android:name=".gogogo" android:label="@string/app_name" android:theme="@style/Theme.mine" android:screenOrientation="landscape" android:configChanges="orientation"> let my orientation change to landscape. However, I figu...

MySQL: Casting confusion or bug?

I can't seem to find an explanation for this and I'm pretty sure that it has previously worked as expected. SELECT CAST(-1 AS UNSIGNED INTEGER); Expected: 0 Result: 18446744073709551615 Am I confused, has something changed, or is this a MySQL bug? ...

funny C# Contract.Requires bug with comments?

Hi, I had the following code: Contract.Requires(somecondition, "some message"/*some comment*/); and while debugging at some moment the condition wasn't met, and it threw the exception with the usual text, plus the comment! :P So I got this exception: ContractException was unhandled. Precondition failed: somecondition. "some message...

What is the <!> element in IE developer toolbar

In noticed the <!> element in IE6 and 7 (haven't tested 8) developer toolbar. It appears to be an element created to hold the background image for one of my actual elements (the actual element is now a child of the <!> element according to IE) Does anyone know what the <!> element is and why IE creates it to hold the background image (I...

Avoiding messy browser's death

During the past few months, I've been working on a large web application. Repeatedly, we've written code that, according to DOM & JS specifications, should work perfectly, but still manages to completely kill one or more of our test browsers -- recently, we produced pure JavaScript code that should have been harmless but causes General P...

my span can't stay in a div element

Firefox , safari and chrome works fine but not IE ... Here is my HTML <div id="sc-footer">Total<span id="sc-total">$0</span></div> css #sc-footer{ font-size: 1.6em; line-height:1.5em; position:absolute; bottom: 20px; padding:9px 5px; height:20px; background: #dadada; color: #545454; } #sc-total{ display:inline; float:rig...

Rails booleans bug ?

I have a rather misterious problem dealing with booleans in Rails, here is how to reproduce: rails new boolean_bug rails generate model User verified:boolean With this you should have an empty project with the User model. 3 Inside boolean_bug/app/models/user.rb ' class User < ActiveRecord::Base before_save :set_false attr_access...

Java: examples of very hard to track-down bugs

Hello All, Related to this question, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/570353/hardest-types-of-bugs-to-track, does anyone have any examples of real-world code that introduces extremely hard-to-identify bugs, e.g a Heisenbug? If you wanted to deliberately introduce a difficult bug, what would you do? ...

[MASM] Long code length bug?

Hello everybody I'm currently working on a rather big assembly program it's a chatter bot. It spans currently well over 700 lines of code. In my program I've two labels, my program uses these labels to keep track of certain data that gets moved around in a random manner. Let me explain to you what happend: The job the program has to do...