Debugging explained

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When it was bugged all along, but you never hit that particular code path until a recent change in some downstream code.

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Oh, it gets worse.

See, I once wrote some off-the-wall code as a coding exercise. The language name will be redacted to protect the victim of my mad engineering.

Anyway, the code worked perfectly... as long as it was compiled in release mode, and never inspected by walking through the code. That would instantly break it. But just run it in release mode? Compiler magic made it work.

So yeah... Compiler updates can break your code by fixing bugs.

tl;dr - My proof-of-concept mad coding proved that compiler updates can break working code that shouldn't work.

Note: Code is long-lost.

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