Wow, just the process of sneaking in this exploit has layers. Here, it's the pre...

thenewwazoo · 2024-03-31T02:56:39 1711853799

I got curious, so:

     ~/t [main L|…1]$ gcc test.c
     ~/t [main L|…1]$ vi test.c
     ~/t [main L| 1…1]$ git diff
    diff --git a/test.c b/test.c
    index 33c14ce..dc93007 100644
    --- a/test.c
    +++ b/test.c
    @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
     int main() {
    -    return 0;
    +   return 0;
     }
     ~/t [main L| 1…1]$ gcc test.c
    test.c:2:5: error: expected expression
        <U+0008>return 0;
        ^
    1 error generated.

So, yes, this could have been made to look exactly like a meaningless whitespace change.