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  The most stupid C bug ever

I have been programming for a number of years already. I have seen others introduce bugs, and I have also introduced (and solved!) many bugs while coding. Off-by-one, buffer-overflow, treating pointers as pointees, different behaviors or the same function (this is specially true for cross-platform applications), race conditions, deadlocks, threading issues. I think I have seen quite a few of the typical issues.Yet recently I lost a lot of time to what I would call the most stupid C bug in my career so far, and probably ever.I am porting a Unix-only application which uses tmpfile() to create te...

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