This reminds me of a brilliant coder I worked with while in grad school. We were doing a lot of low-level kernel hacking for the SnowFlock project[0] although h

This reminds me of a brilliant coder I worked with while in grad school. We were doing a lot of low-level kernel hacking for the SnowFlock project[0] although his knowledge and skills were (and I'm sure still are) significantly deeper than mine in this area. He had spent a significant amount of time on a particular bug and eventually started digging through the assembly code and found the cause was a compiler bug. Such a thing blew my mind at the time. [0] http://sysweb.cs.toronto.edu/projects/1 http://sysweb.cs.toronto.edu/projects/1