Comment by AdieuToLogic 12 hours ago
You know what this doesn't show?
Visual C++ v4.2b generating an assignment operator which invoked the destructor of a returned object before assigning it to the lval.
That was fun to figure out. :-/
I lost a game prototype to that bug as it crashed my HDD at the same time by writing swap over swap. Screwing up the S.M.A.R.T. page.
Hard reboot left it doa. With today’s tools it could have been recovered but I lacked gparted and a kali thumb stick to bring it back. So thankful for Linux.
I remember a bug in an old Visual C++ that would fill your RAM and swap (therefore hard drive) if you forgot a semicolon at the end of a class, like:
To fix that, you had to kill the compiler process.