Re:Stop Filing Bugs, File a Container
by coldtea on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:54AM
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>The most common situations for having a bug that works on my machine but not other people's have to do with memory access violations.
Not even close. Different classpaths, different versions of packages, some ENV setting like LOCALE causing havoc, a different configuration between the two installations of the programs that are debugged, a single core vs multi core cpu that masks some race conditions, there are literally MILLIONS of things that can, and in my experience, have, cause something to work in one machine and not another.
In fact memory access violations do not even register as a blip on the top-100 reasons...
Not even close. Different classpaths, different versions of packages, some ENV setting like LOCALE causing havoc, a different configuration between the two installations of the programs that are debugged, a single core vs multi core cpu that masks some race conditions, there are literally MILLIONS of things that can, and in my experience, have, cause something to work in one machine and not another.
In fact memory access violations do not even register as a blip on the top-100 reasons...