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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

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Gary R. Wheeler4-May-22 12:33
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Gary R. Wheeler4-May-22 12:48
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Mircea Neacsu4-May-22 13:40
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Gary R. Wheeler4-May-22 14:28
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Randor 4-May-22 12:06
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Gary R. Wheeler4-May-22 12:53
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charlieg15-May-22 1:33
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Gary R. Wheeler15-May-22 3:16
Gary R. Wheeler15-May-22 3:16 
charlieg wrote:
This smells like nifty code. Nifty code is brittle. If it's difficult to understand a struct, you're doing it wrong.
I heartily agree. This struct defines the message format used by our in-house diagnostic tool. Our applications are multi-machine, multi-process, and multithreaded. Each process includes a small TCP/IP socket-based server that communicates with a client application. Code in the process uses the server like printf on steroids. The client in turn handles as many server connections as needed, displaying and recording them. The servers and this tool has been essential for both development and problem diagnosis in the field for us for the last 20 years. It's been maintained and refactored numerous times. We have systems in the field that are over 10 years old, so backward compatibility is an absolute requirement.

The good news is the code around this definition abstracts away the awkwardness of this definition.
Software Zen: delete this;

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charlieg20-Jul-22 8:03
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