*squints* bug.. in the function? *squints more* no,...

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*squints* bug.. in the function?
*squints more* no, bug.. in the assembler.

Like 11 Dec 2023 at 16:50 | Open on merveilles.town

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@neauoire common stackoverflow nerd: there are almost never bugs in the compiler, its usually user code
me, writing several compilers, riddled with bugs: 😬😬😬

11 Dec 2023 at 17:46 | Open on merveilles.town

Devine Lu Linvega

@nasser me everytime I fix a bug in the assembler: "This is it! That was the last one ever."

11 Dec 2023 at 17:47 | Open on merveilles.town

Ramsey Nasser

@neauoire i sometimes think about software people encountering bugs for the first time in the 50s... its not obvious that bugs would be a permanent part of software and i wonder when that ominous realization donned on people...

11 Dec 2023 at 17:48 | Open on merveilles.town

gvv

@neauoire my entire last 24 hrs (modulo sleeping and eating).. ugh, bug in assembly code 🤓no wait: bug in emulator 😬no wait, bug in assembler? hrrmmm... 🤔 ooohhhhh, bug in specification! 😖

11 Dec 2023 at 17:57 | Open on noc.social

@neauoire *squints further* bug in the cpu?

It’s funny, at work it’s an old adage that if you think it’s a compiler bug it’s probably not (true). But once the complete opposite happened and a colleague was trying to debug something and ended up reporting a microcode bug to Intel. (!!)

11 Dec 2023 at 21:14 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org

Devine Lu Linvega

@nf I can imagine intel being like, nha, you must have made a mistake.

11 Dec 2023 at 21:21 | Open on merveilles.town

@neauoire from what I remember they were grateful for the report!

12 Dec 2023 at 7:06 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org

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