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Unexplained Phenomena
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Source: https://musicians.today/@barnetboy/113475747574177779
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// This line does nothing, however removing it causes production to crash. DO NOT REMOVE
I love hitting these things in the real world. Not the big, but the comment. You just know someone spent a fortune in time and company resources to never solve the problem and their frustration level was ragequit. But then something stupid like adding
while (0){};
Suddenly made it work and they were like, fuckit.
Usually it's a bug somewhere in a compiler trying to over optimize or something and putting the line in there caused the optimization not to happen or something. Black magic.
The downside is that the compiler bug probably gets fixed, and then decades later the comment and line are still there...
And then the compiler updates to get better at spotting optimization opportunities and it blows up again