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How does the OS still function with a basic bug like this?
by comrade1234 1y ago
How does the OS still function with a basic bug like this?
- wat10000 1y agoWhat critical OS functionality would this break?
- vermilingua 1y agoI don’t think there is much systems code that needs an exponent of -1, maybe none that needs exponents at all (aside from 2^n, which has opcodes, not C functions)
- terminalbraid 1y agoThe bug is for an exponent of 2. The base is -1.
- Dylan16807 1y agoThey mean power of -1.
- CodesInChaos 1y agoMost critical OS functionality will use integers, not floats. And I'd expect most programmers to write squaring a float as `x * x`.
- dvh 1y agoThere was an article some time ago where someone ran doom with progressively more incorrect value of pi
- mmis1000 1y agoDue to how windows manage dependencies, you can have different versions of same library all the way back to windows xp days. It's not necessary other software on the computer will hit the bug on this version of library.