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Pet Bugs?

Posted by Cliff on from the bugs-even-industrial-strength-RAID-doesn't-kill dept.

benreece asks: "During my few years as a programmer/developer I've come across some strange bugs. Recently I found that Microsoft's VB/VBScript(ASP) round function has problems (for example, 'round(82.845)' returns '82.84' instead of '82.85'). It took me an annoyingly long time to realize the problem wasn't mine. I'm wondering what other obscure, weird, and especially annoying bugs in languages/compilers/etc have frustrated other developers." Memorable bugs. Every developer has one. What were yours?

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  1. Re:strtok by spitzak · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Technically it is not a bug but documented behavior. The man page writer is trying to discourage you from using the function by calling it a bug.

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