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by bugeats 2144 days ago
ITT: everyone pretending they've never burned hours troubleshooting only to find a stupid `=` instead of a `==`.
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ViViDboarder 2144 days ago
Yea. Who hasn’t slipped up and forgotten an equals sign... and then accidentally exploited the Linux CVS and pushed their code without approval...

We’ve all been there! /s

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vlovich123 2144 days ago
It has been a long time since I make sure my codebases have `-Wall -Werror`. This bug is from 2003 both when that wasn't as common & when compiler diagnostics weren't as good/reliable.
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not2b 2144 days ago
This code would not trigger under -Wall -Werror. Try it.
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vlovich123 2144 days ago
I was referring to what the parent wrote:

> ITT: everyone pretending they've never burned hours troubleshooting only to find a stupid `=` instead of a `==`.

In the general case that OP was talking about, not for underhanded code, my comment holds.

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