Comment by kittoes Comment by kittoes a day ago 4 replies Copy Link View on Hacker News Really? Someone depending on UB in their software represents the downfall of Microsoft?! What a hot take...
Copy Link devnullbrain a day ago Collapse Comment - User has working software. User updates operating system. User has broken software.That's a problem for the party trying to sell operating system updates. Reply View | 3 replies Copy Link voidspark a day ago Parent Collapse Comment - The software was fundamentally broken before the OS update. It was working by pure random chance with undefined behaviour. It’s a C++ issue, not an OS issue. The same code compiled for another OS would have different random results. Reply View | 2 replies Copy Link Uvix a day ago Root Parent Next Collapse Comment - While this is technically correct that doesn’t get the customer to put the blame where it belongs. Reply View | 0 replies Copy Link smallstepforman 19 hours ago Root Parent Prev Collapse Comment - Not a C++ issue, but a sloppy developer issue. Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link voidspark a day ago Parent Collapse Comment - The software was fundamentally broken before the OS update. It was working by pure random chance with undefined behaviour. It’s a C++ issue, not an OS issue. The same code compiled for another OS would have different random results. Reply View | 2 replies Copy Link Uvix a day ago Root Parent Next Collapse Comment - While this is technically correct that doesn’t get the customer to put the blame where it belongs. Reply View | 0 replies Copy Link smallstepforman 19 hours ago Root Parent Prev Collapse Comment - Not a C++ issue, but a sloppy developer issue. Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link Uvix a day ago Root Parent Next Collapse Comment - While this is technically correct that doesn’t get the customer to put the blame where it belongs. Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link smallstepforman 19 hours ago Root Parent Prev Collapse Comment - Not a C++ issue, but a sloppy developer issue. Reply View | 0 replies
User has working software. User updates operating system. User has broken software.
That's a problem for the party trying to sell operating system updates.