The mother of all functions!
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Few years ago I developed an application used for datalogging automotive vehicles. In the meantime, it's been added to. Today I got to see some of these additions.
As I'm going through the source file...I suddenly see something like this:
if(...insanely long condition)
{
3-4 lines of code
}
if(...insanely long condition)
{
3-4 lines of code
}
if(...insanely long condition)
{
3-4 lines of code
}
if(...insanely long condition)
{
3-4 lines of code
}
if(...insanely long condition)
{
3-4 lines of code
}
....I hit page down. I still see the same.
I hit page down again. Still the same.
Hit page down about 10 more times, still the same.
About 20 page downs later, I'm beginning to really go, WTF?
So I go back to the top of the function. This was C# code in Visual studio so I went and collapsed the function.
Line # above the function:
~5000
Line # below the collapsed function:
~15000
Yep, that one function had 10,000 lines of code, all of them in the ever repeating pattern as shown above.
Some people should just simply not be let near a computer, let alone a compiler...
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I smell auto-generated code.
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Is this function from the c-pound port of this application?
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And here I was hoping for a function generating function.
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@emurphy said:
I smell auto-generated code.
Sadly I know who wrote that function and sadly it wasn't auto-generated.
