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How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2

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Re: How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2

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Post by mschuster91 »

db48x wrote: post #2

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To u/db48x whose post got flagged and doesn't reappear despite me vouching for it as I think they have a point (at least for modern games): GTA San Andreas was released in 2004. Back then, YAML was in its infancy (2001) and JSON was only standardized informally in 2006, and XML wasn't something widely used outside of the Java world.

On top of that, the hardware requirements (256MB of system RAM, and the PlayStation 2 only had 32MB) made it enough of a challenge to get the game running at all. Throwing in a heavyweight parsing library for either of these three languages was out of the question.

Re: How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2

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Post by ceejayoz »

mschuster91 wrote: post #4
db48x wrote: post #2

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To u/db48x whose post got flagged and doesn't reappear despite me vouching for it as I think they have a point (at least for modern games): GTA San Andreas was released in 2004. Back then, YAML was in its infancy (2001) and JSON was only standardized informally in 2006, and XML wasn't something widely used outside of the Java world. On top of that, the hardware requirements (256MB of system RAM, and the PlayStation 2…

Vouching seems to be time-lagged and require more than one.

Re: How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2

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Post by Magma7404 »

mschuster91 wrote: post #4
db48x wrote: post #2

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To u/db48x whose post got flagged and doesn't reappear despite me vouching for it as I think they have a point (at least for modern games): GTA San Andreas was released in 2004. Back then, YAML was in its infancy (2001) and JSON was only standardized informally in 2006, and XML wasn't something widely used outside of the Java world. On top of that, the hardware requirements (256MB of system RAM, and the PlayStation 2…

The comment reappeared, and while you're right about using proper libraries to handle data, it doesn't excuse the "undefined behavior (uninitialized local variables)" that I still see all the time despite all the warning and error flags that can be fed to the compiler.

Most of the time, the programmers who do this do not follow the simple rule that Stroustrup said which is to define or initialize a variable where you declare it (i.e. declare it before using it), and which would solve a lot of bugs in C++.

Re: How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2

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Post by Henchman21 »

delfaras wrote: post #7
db48x wrote: post #2

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funnily enough, there was an infamous bug in GTA5 for a long time that was related to using JSON : https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...

Loading times are still absurd, fwiw.
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