A (typical?) example

• A student in 1998 – hits a bug & starts on a fix

  • First 'community' contribution:
  • to a large code-base 500k lines
  • lots of lovely macros / global variables

• Hacked a patch: add -Wsequence-point to gcc

  • Catches a = a++; a[n] = b[n++]; etc.

• Signed / posted / got copyright to FSF confirmed

• Posted E-mail with patch: 16th June 1998