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Mysterious Moving Pointers
In which I pretend to be Raymond Chen
Like any modernization effort, changes in the language are likely to break existing software as certain things are deprecated and new features are added. One piece of software was built exclusively for Windows and after upgrading the project, an important class consistently caused segmentation faults. Because of Microsoft's partial implementation of the standard pre-2015, we could rely on our nodes staying in the same spot because our vector would move the lists it contained.
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