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Shit software engineers do.

24 November 2016 · 1 min read

A lot of macOS is opensource, Apple periodically releases part of its killer OS so that the general public (or a subset of it who happen to understand code) can go through it.

Now, a guy ran a grep (a program to search across a [text] file for specific things) to filter the comments in the macOS WinNT Kernel.

He has shared it here.

Following are a few hilarious bits I found in it:

../tdi/tcpip/tcp/tcpsend.c:// STUPID FUCKING COMPILER generates incorrect code for this.

../fastfat/allocsup.c:// God knows what state we left the disk allocation in.

../dd/histgram/cmd/perfhist/perfhist.c:// the heck? we are gods anyways!

../nthals/halntp/mips/xxinitnt.c:// to the HAL by the NT god. Hail Caesar!

../w32/ntgdi/client/dcquery.c:// if cjotma == 0, this is HONEST to God unicode font, can not convert

../w32/ntgdi/fondrv/tt/ttfd/fontfile.h:// honest to God msft unicode font

../w32/ntgdi/fondrv/tt/ttfd/tt.h:// uint16 reservedPad; // only God knows why

../se/ctlpcqos.c:// Appease the compiler Gods.

../cntfs/create.c:// Here is the "M A R K [REDACTED]" hack from hell.

../afd/disconn.c:// Hack-O-Rama. TDI has a fundamental flaw in that it is often impossible

../afd/disconn.c:// Yet another hack to keep it from crashing

../fastfat/read.c:// Deal with stupid people who open the volume DASD with

../afd/recvdg.c:// Bomb off if the user is trying to do something stupid, like

If that is what they do at Apple, how could we blame the mere mortals?