This is not academic code or a hypothetical quesiton. The original problem was converting code from HP11 to HP1123 Itanium. Basically it boils down to a compile error on HP1123 Itanium. It has me really scratching my head when reproducing it on Windows for study. I have stripped all but the most basic aspects... You may have to press...
Most C++ programmers like me have made the following mistake at some point: class C { /*...*/ }; int main() { C c(); // declares a function c taking no arguments returning a C, // not, as intended by most, an object c of type C initialized // using the default constructor. c.foo(); // compiler compla...
I remember reading a book named: Java Puzzlers Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases that described odd behavior in Java code. Stuff that look completely innocent but in actuality perform something completely different than the obvious. One example was: (EDIT: This post is NOT a discussion on this particular example. This was the firs...
I have a rather popular Bonjour-based application in App Store. It works perfectly, but around 0.2% of my users report a bizarre bug: "no arrows appear on the edges of the screen, so I can't share stuff with other people!". Needless to say, displaying these arrows is tied to the browsing of a particular Bonjour service on the local domai...