GCC Easter Eggs?
Steve
smorrey at gmail.com
Mon Jul 24 09:33:51 MDT 2006
Yes I'm sure it was compiled using GCC, it was compiled under GCC 4.0
On 7/24/06, Dave Smith <dave at thesmithfam.org> wrote:
> 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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