I remember a bug in an old Visual C++ that would fill your RAM and swap (therefore hard drive) if you forgot a semicolon at the end of a class, like:

    class A { int a }
    int main(...)

To fix that, you had to kill the compiler process.

I lost a game prototype to that bug as it crashed my HDD at the same time by writing swap over swap. Screwing up the S.M.A.R.T. page.

Hard reboot left it doa. With today’s tools it could have been recovered but I lacked gparted and a kali thumb stick to bring it back. So thankful for Linux.

Nice one... I seem to remember MSVC 5 having a switch that made all functions virtual - or am I confused with another compiler?