>The old adage (not mine) is that 99% of the time operating system bugs are actually bugs in your program, and the other 1% of the time they are still bugs in y

>The old adage (not mine) is that 99% of the time operating system bugs are actually bugs in your program, and the other 1% of the time they are still bugs in your program, so look harder, dammit. I agree in general, but... I have run into a few platform bugs in my time. For example, at one point realloc in the standard C library that came with Visual Studio would break if you (IIRC) allocated a bunch of blocks that were over 16k, and realloced them to be smaller than 16k. And I had to figure that out the hard way, because the bug was making our code crash. Also, on most game consoles, I'd say about a quarter of the time you think something is a platform bug, it really is. Seriously. Compiler bugs and SDK bugs just aren't all that uncommon there.