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by NigelTufnel 4461 days ago
Were it GCC instead of VC++ that wouldn't change much for a lot of people. Fixing bugs in a program with 7 million lines of code is not easy.

Fixing bugs in GCC for an unitiated person is probably super hard.

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> Fixing bugs in a program with 7 million lines of code is not easy.

It's not like you have to read all 7 million lines of code. The author of the article already has a stack trace; all he'd need to do is skim the functions along that trace. In this case it sounds highly likely that the fix is to comment out some code somewhere that is initializing a resource that isn't actually needed.

Frankly it sounds pretty easy.