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Fight Club

/* XXX: BIG BIG IMPORTANT FAT NOTE! :XXX
 *
 * The first rule of fight club is:
 *   You do not include ssl/ssl.h.
 *
 * The second rule of fight club is:
 *   You DO NOT include ssl/ssl.h.
 *
 * The third rule of fight club is:
 *   If you include util/error.h before ssl/ssl.h,
 *   the compilation is over!
 *
 * The fourth rule of fight club is:
 *   Only one inclusion of ssl/ssl.h at once.
 *
 * The fifth rule of fight club is:
 *   If you include ssl/ssl.h, it comes right after elinks.h.
 *
 * The sixth rule of fight club is:
 *   No ssl/ssl.h in other .h file, no complaints about
 *   the rules.
 *
 * The seventh rule of fight club is:
 *   The compilation will go as long as there is still
 *   something to compile.
 *
 * The eight, and final rule of fight club is:
 *   If this your first peek at this .h file, you
 *   HAVE TO COMPILE!
 *
 *   (Apologies to Chuck Palahniuk.) */

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: ELinks
Programming language: C

March 26, 2019 0 8

Work guarantee

/* Yeah, yeah. Cheap hack, but it’s guarenteed to work! :)
 * The following just hacks the returned track name into
 * the variable
 */

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: kover
Programming language: C++

March 20, 2019 0 7

I have NO idea how this happened

/* what the f*ck... this happened once when the source was
 * somehow added twice... i have NO idea how this happened,
 * but giFT shouldn’t be crashing because of it */

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: giFT
Programming language: C

March 16, 2019 0 7

A security standpoint

/*
 * Map other pairs to security names
 * here. For now just let non-IPv4 transport always succeed.
 *
 * WHAAAATTTT. No, we don’t let non-IPv4 transports
 * succeed! You must fix this to make it usable, sorry.
 * From a security standpoint this is insane. — Wes
 */

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: Net-SNMP
Programming language: C

March 15, 2019 0 7

Self censorship

// we like profanity in open source software, please read the
// following words carefully:
// f**k, p*ssy, d*ck, sp**m, motherf**ker
//
// hope our source code will now be censored by all
// governments that s**k.

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: Clanbomber2
Programming language: C++

March 12, 2019 0 5

Say goodbye to the webserver

/*
  newlocation must now be the absolute path on newhost.
  If not we’ve been redirected to somewhere totally stupid
  (oh yeah, no offsite linking, go to our f*cking front page).
  Say goodbye to the webserver in this case. In fact, we don’t
  even say goodbye, but just drop the connection.
*/

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: Snownews
Programming language: C

March 7, 2019 0 5

We are in trouble

// Ok, If we’ve gotten here, we’re in trouble...

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: GNU Octave
Programming language: C++

March 6, 2019 0 9

Support interlacing

/* interlaced image — futz with the vertical trace. i wish
 * i knew what kind of drugs the GIF people were on when
 * they decided that they needed to support interlacing.
 */

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: Chimera
Programming language: C

March 3, 2019 0 6

The documented way

// The documented way of returning a multi selection when
// the result buffer is to small doesn't work. Well...
// At least, I can't get it working...
// Pick up the information directly from the selection-
// dialog and return it in the same format as it is
// documented. I HATE WINDOWS! BILL GATES GO TO HM-HM!!!!

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: Kerberos Telnet
Programming language: C++

March 1, 2019 0 5

Do not translate the next line

/* HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!, do not translate the next
 * line!, Since this is the default string we might as well
 * use the gettext translation as we will likely have better
 * translations there. Yes ugly as f*ck, but oh well,
 * unfortunately two standard defaults are in circulation */

Source: Direct link to the source code
Software: GNOME Display Manager
Programming language: C

February 27, 2019 0 5