when programs turn nasty

[clover leaf]

What was the biggest accident you made trying to make a program, then it just stuffed up your computer.

Mine was a calculator that looped over and over, eventually the screen went black and I had to restart (my computer not the project).

[Skillless]

Thats the reason i have task manager open when im doing stuff that might go wrong quick

Havent had any bad accidents really

[Bazzy]

I've managed to crash the IDE or the compiler some times.
I've once run a program to use 100% RAM & CPU to see what happens, that time my system got so slow that I had some problems killing that program

[chrisname]

I one managed to cause a BSOD with scanf(). This was before I knew how pointers work.

Really I have no idea what happened, I just ran my program and... yeah.

[NGen]

I made a program that would read any type of file and dispay the file as an image, each 3-byte set making an RGB value. It made my system hang like an AMD Overdrive overclock gone wrong. Mouse wouldn't move, pressing the power button did nothing. I eventually just hit the restart button, never bothered to finish the program since it wasn't all that important.

[blackcoder41]

Infinite loop :(

[helios]

Are you all running in real mode or something? The only time I've accidentally caused a crash was while working on kernel code. I can't imagine how you can crash the system from user space.

[1yR4jE8b]

int main(){
     while(true)
          new double();

     return 0;
}

Just to see how fast it would take me down. It was practically instantaneous....

[Vexer]

Just to see how fast it would take me down. It was practically instantaneous....

I just ran that, took my comp about 30 seconds to freeze up. I am running with 2GB of RAM and an AMD Turion dual core processor.

[NGen]

VC++ automatically runs programs in 32-bit mode, didn't affect me since I have 6GB installed.

[helios]

See? I knew it. The system didn't crash, it just ran slowly while there were a lot of page outs going on and it killed the program when swap space finally ran out.

[Vexer]

It was pretty cool to see my program take over a GB of ram in task manager, lol.

[Seraphimsan]

I did that once just to see what would happen. I made a multithreaded with 10 threads making each making a child thread every second, and each thread allocating memory for a class with one of each of the basic types in it. it took about 12 seconds for the old laptop to hang :P well it didnt so much hang as it slowed to the point where I couldnt move the mouse anymore.