Collecting favorite bug stories

[Chuck McManis]

Of course there was a time when you could right a Fortran program for
TOPS-10 like so :

	FOO(0.0,10)

	SUBROUTINE FOO(A,B)
	A = B * 3
	RETURN
	END
And when executed the compiler generated constant for zero was a pointer
to some known word with zero in it was changed. This affected all subsequent
references to the constant 0.0 by your program or anyone elses on the
system!

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--Chuck McManis
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