Ha!

[robinbloke]

Found it, damn that was a quirky one.

Learn ye from the programming commandments;

7. Thou shalt not declare static sized arrays for dynamic data.

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Oh joy :)

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

What muppet did that, then?

(Not that I am a non-muppet, but my errors tend to be far more unsubtle)

Re: Oh joy :)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

My former, former boss; it's similar to the old 2k story, he just never thought there'd be that much data in there and allocated a block of 20x50 bytes, we hit more (after several overflows already) and boom.

Like another problem we'll have (eventually) where I pointed out to my boss in around 3 years our entire ink verification system will irrovocably stop working as it clocks over the 99 months timescale.