I work at a company where we take applications made for cell phones (MIDP) and convert them into applications for blackberries and windows mobile devices.  I think the one I'm working on now has already gone through this process, as it's a lot of search & replace in some cases.  Guess what I'm talking about:

 Timer m_iconBlinkTimer = new Timer(); // how int to blink the unit icon

 Lame, indeed.  Sadly, par for the course for most of the J2ME code I've seen.

Eh, it's a wtf, but only lowercase.

On the other hand, why would you need to change all your longs to ints to go from normal phones to blackberries?

I believe the longs were converted to ints when the code was converted into regular cell-phone code from something else.

 

Also, I've found another:

 

//object was active and is no inter active

durnurd:

I believe the longs were converted to ints when the code was converted into regular cell-phone code from something else.

 

This is made all the more interesting by knowing (or at least having a good idea) the reasoning behind the madness. I wonder how many WTFs (at least in comments) are caused by just this...

durnurd:

//object was active and is no inter active

Maybe it's just not interactive. Did ya ever think of that?!

durnurd:

I believe the longs were converted to ints when the code was converted into regular cell-phone code from something else.

 

Also, I've found another:

 

//object was active and is no inter active

Looks like the "refactoring" was something akin to s/long/int/g but should've been s/long /int /g ... except it would still screw up the first comment. Anyway ... converting long to int? Why?

Looks like the "refactoring" was something akin to s/long/int/g but should've been s/long /int /g ... except it would still screw up the first comment. Anyway ... converting long to int? Why?

*sigh* I hate to be that guy, but:

java long: 64 bits, java int: 32 bits.

C long: 32 bits (probably). 

 

Someone did say "Java conversion" right? was that C to java or java to java? 

I'm guessing the above is correct.

 Here's another favorite:

    public int getImageHeight()
    {
            return m_Layout.getWidth();
    }

    public int getImageWidth()
    {
            return m_Layout.getHeight();
    } 

A while back, I found a bunch of instances of "shorto" in comments in various files across the codebase. This is J2SE, not mobile, no porting involved. No idea why that search and replace was done.