XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: Peter@Iron-Spring.com   
      
   On 1/3/26 14:58, c186282 wrote:   
   > On 1/3/26 15:38, rbowman wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 03 Jan 2026 06:09:32 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> And whether the variable is followed by some padding.  If that char[4]   
   >>> variable is followed by, say, 4 bytes of padding, you can write up to 8   
   >>> bytes to it and not feel a thing.  Then comes the day when you try to   
   >>> write 9 bytes there and kaboom.  I've lost a lot of hair with those   
   >>> ones,   
   >>> when a program that's run fine for a couple of years suddenly dies.   
   >>   
   >> I have fixed bugs that were old enough to vote. Like the organisms in the   
   >> permafrost in the plot lines of 'The Last ship' and 'Fortitude' they lay   
   >> there in wait...   
   >>   
   >> 30 years ago programmers were very stingy with allocations.   
   >   
   >    Wasn't much to allocate ....  :-)   
   >   
      
   What is this "allocate" thing. When I started the major languages were   
   COBOL and FORTRAN, and both used only static memory allocation.   
      
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