Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: A Hacker Went to C Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2023 21:11:04 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 58 Message-ID: <20231206125538.421@kylheku.com> Injection-Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2023 21:11:04 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="92b44a8856cd926408a4565ddd49f2d9"; logging-data="978291"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19TUDpX++QVcdzFSLUqHW0Bwtj6tGoivKc=" User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.4-9 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XQEBFQ1/cbbjdWwfEJHk7nRMAYo= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.c:304422 Something to sing with your kids, to the tune of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOA3he2Gv4M A hacker fetched some C C C To C what he could C C C But all that he could C C C What a segfault in the deeply nested C C C Far across the C he went Far across the C he went Far across the C he went Until the day night was over He googled low and high, high, high For a workaround for to try, try, try But the patch would not apply, 'ply, 'ply A tear was in his eye, eye, eye Far across the C he went Far across the C he went Far across the C he went Until the night was over He dropped to a level low, low, low To step it nice and slow, slow, slow But when he got to the place where it blows, blows, blows GDB would nothing show, show, show Far across the C he went Far across the C he went Far across the C he went Until the day was over He spent another night, night, night But still couldn't see the light, light, light Then he saw some spaces white, white, white In the patch that weren't right, right, right Far across the C he went Far across the C he went Far across the C he went Until the night was over The hacker whipped out sed, sed, sed As fast as could be said, said, said He could see it in his head, head, head The patch now would be read, read, read Far across the C he went Far across the C he went Far across the C he went Until the night was over -- TXR Programming Language: http://nongnu.org/txr Cygnal: Cygwin Native Application Library: http://kylheku.com/cygnal Mastodon: @Kazinator@mstdn.ca NOTE: If you use Google Groups, I don't see you, unless you're whitelisted.