GCC Easter Eggs?
Dave Smith
dave at thesmithfam.org
Mon Jul 24 09:29:55 MDT 2006
Steve wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> I'm wondering if anyone has seen any easter eggs in GCC dissamblies?
> Reason I ask is I was debugging a bit of code recently and saw a lot
> of pointers all to the same place in memory, even though they should
> have been completely different values.
> (this=0x85cafe0)
> I got to looking alot closer at the code (Note I am debugging this
> code I did not write it)
> And figured out that they were ALL uninitialized pointers!
> Anyways I don't know if it was fluke or an easter egg, but it looks
> like an easter egg to me!
>
> Anyone ever notice anything else like that, maybe even some tips for
> things to look for in the future?
Probably a fluke. Are you sure the binary was compiled with gcc? What
about this:
http://www.destinationteesvalley.co.uk/dine_with_us/dine.2006-02-17.3089028845
--Dave
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