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(COOLLIST) Magnapop/Unix Parody
Empress, you may want to pass this on to the ACM song parody archives.
I was driving to work this morning, thinking about one of my favorite
songs currently getting airtime, Magnapop's "Open the Door". Well, a
little brain-corruption produced the chorus, and the rest of the song
was easy. If you've not heard the original, go and buy "Rubbing
Doesn't Help", Magnapop's latest, right now.
Open the "core"
by Benjamin L. Combee
a parody of Magnapop's "Open the Door"
All my code seems good today
But all of my jobs are dying.
An array goes out of bounds
And all of the pointers seem to stray.
All of my pointers really seem to stray.
I said: open the "core"
open the "core", let's debug the code some more
open the "core", open the "core"
GDB is rather nice
finding your crash in the morning light
find your core dump where the code isn't right
Chorus
All my code seems good today
But all of my jobs are dying.
Careful where you dereference,
Careful when you post the fence,
Those pointer crashes cause offense.
Chorus
<< BTW, if you know nothing about UNIX programming, a core dump is the
remains of a program when it crashes and is usually called "core".
GDB is the GNU debugger which can analyze core dumps to find where
the crash occured. Stray pointers and array overruns are common
sources of crash-causing errors, and the act of getting something
wrong by one is often called a "fencepost" error. >>
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