IRC #olimex 2017-02-12

[13:45:00] <kotdadabong> anybody else write a binary program that works but then just for no reason at all just stops? nothing was recompiled, no changes were made to the system, just a power surge, then suddenly it wont execute a specific binary anymore
[13:45:28] <kotdadabong> but itll execute anything else
[16:13:05] <adj__> kotdadabong, in my case always stops working for a reason
[16:14:10] <kotdadabong> thats what im trying to figure out
[16:15:28] <kotdadabong> one guy in the qt section said some of my libraries probably got corrupted. i have 2 programs i wrote in qt, but only one of them stopped working when they were both compiled and working fine
[16:15:45] <adj__> kotdadabong, do you think that with your question, without any information about the hardware, what you did etc. is it possible to guess any reason?
[16:17:51] <kotdadabong> well, thats how the guy in qt guessed that its likely a corrupted library.
[16:21:41] <adj__> then you already know the reason
[16:23:18] <kotdadabong> yea, hopefully. but i didnt wanna go spilling my heart out to an empty chat room so i kept the details to a minimum until someone responded and thus, a plan of attack in under 3 hours
[16:23:56] <kotdadabong> i was just asking it here to see if anyone else with olimex boards may have experienced something similar and maybe knew something
[16:27:55] <adj__> kotdadabong, there are a lot of olimex boards, some with spi flash, other with onboard nand flash, some with onboard emmc...