I don't know whether to laugh or cry at some of these anecdotes.
As a final example, a buffer overflow checker flagged a bunch of errors of the form
unsigned p[4];
...
p[4] = 1;
"No, ANSI lets you write 1 past the end of the array."
After heated argument, the programmer said, "We'll have to agree to disagree." We could agree about the disagreement, though we couldn't quite comprehend it.
Ha! That probably came out of a rule in the standard that a pointer may point one past the end of an array. (Bump it any further and your compiler is not required to do anything sensible, iirc.)
As a final example, a buffer overflow checker flagged a bunch of errors of the form
"No, ANSI lets you write 1 past the end of the array."After heated argument, the programmer said, "We'll have to agree to disagree." We could agree about the disagreement, though we couldn't quite comprehend it.