2010-11-23, 09:12 AM
CarrionCrow Wrote:Thumbs up for Nexon if this is not just some quick fix that'll turn out to open doors to bugs and exploits.
Cynical/Experienced guess: they fixed one line of code, or one compilation flag.
Typical scenario:
Programmer: Look at this!
Team Leader: Yes?
Programmer: Notice anything wrong?
Team Leader: hmm... well... I'm not that familiar with this particular package...
Programmer: This line, here.
Team Leader: Well?
Programmer: It says "sizeof(classA)"... but I think it should be "sizeof(classB)"... someone copy-pasted but didn't search-and-replace completely...
Team Leader: Oh. Right. Wait... so how come it works?
Programmer: Well... sometime it works... and sometimes it causes a crash somewhere down the line... I think.
Team Leader: I see. Change it, let's see what happens.
If we are lucky, they actually ran this changed version through some sanity checks on both XP and Vista/Win7. If not...