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TerrariaClone: An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code. (github.com)

submitted 2 years ago by stratts@programming.dev to c/programming_horror@programming.dev

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[–] porgamrer@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Is that really true? I swear I've seen java codebases with methods thousands of lines long. What can possibly overflow in such a small amount of code?

The only thing that sounds possible to me is a value stored as a u8 or u16 in the bytecode format, with the assumption that methods are never very big, but that would still be surprising given that it's a stack based VM.