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[joostheger]

"in all seriousness if you see this in your errorlog you are allowed to spam me on every platform, i deserve it
this is the worst workaround for a bug that has ever existed and if you see this putnam will give you a cookie"

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

To be honest, it was in the stringdump, not the errorlog

[Blue_Dwarf]

Has the cookie been delivered yet?

One must not make empty promises like that.

[xzaxza]

One must not make empty promises like that.

op admitted it wasn't in the errorlog, but in the stringdump, so I don't think it's a valid claim to begin with

[joostheger]

it still is, however, a very fun thing to find in the string dump

[Ziusudra]

Putnam told me to tell you that your cookie is in the stockpile next to that bridge over there.

[Quietust]

I just tracked down the code which logs that message in a v50.14 disassembly, and all I can say is that it must've been put there to avoid a compiler bug of some sort - it's in the middle of the logic that generates mid-level map terrain information (in what looks like the logic that determines the exact paths of rivers), and it seems to check if the size of the global Units vector is negative (that, or greater than ~9.22 quintillion) which is completely impossible.

[ab9rf]

"in all seriousness if you see this in your errorlog you are allowed to spam me on every platform, i deserve it
this is the worst workaround for a bug that has ever existed and if you see this putnam will give you a cookie"

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

To be honest, it was in the stringdump, not the errorlog

It's not fair to claim the cookie unless you actually saw it in an errorlog in an unmodified environment. I've known about the "cookie" for well over a year now and even why it's there (largely because I've had at least one private chat with Putnam about it), but you don't see me claiming it just because it's visible in the string dump....

I'm actually kinda surprised it took this long for someone to post about it.

[joostheger]

Alright then. You're right. I unclaim the cookie.

[Blue_Dwarf]

Thus, the cookie still awaits the brave soul that shall manage to produce the impossible error and claim it as his own.