My Four Year Bug

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Legacy MFC financial app for interest‑rate simulations keeps arrays of doubles (200–300k) with 20–30 kept in memory, migrates from Visual Studio 2005 to 2010 then 2012 while using Rogue Wave grid libraries and C++11 cereal, and a subtle UI failure emerges: menu text updates stop working because VS2012 changes the API to SetMenuItemInfo, reproducing the bug requires stripping thousands of unused code paths, a vendor patch fixes it after a long workaround.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:35The Beginning
3. 1:42VS 2012 Released
4. 3:26Smashing the Bug
5. 4:06Reproduction & Proof of Concept

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