Staring at Procs, in Maintenance Mode

Fiction/Poetry|Parody Poetry

Staring at Procs, in Maintenance Mode

By Jeff Duntemann
With abundant apologies to Robert Frost
Whose procs these are I'm sure I know
He lives up in the mountains, though;
He would not care to help me here--
He sold his options long ago.

My CS prof would think it queer
To pause without a breakpoint near
Down where our hackers never go--
(At least not since that mess last year...)

Now, why XOR before INT0?
To clear ES on overflow?
Why doesn't that corrupt the heap?
I'm sure that I'll just never know.

His code is subtle, fast, and deep.
But I have schedules to keep,
And bugs to fix before I sleep;
And bugs to fix before I sleep.