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The kind of bug I like to find

December 18, 2006 by Mike Cohen

Simple, obvious bugs with a quick fix are always fun. In some old code, I found this:


fread(&type,4,1,pkginfo);
if (type == 'APPL') ....

Guess what happens on an Intel Mac?

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