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I’m utterly confused. The author argued he found that "comment" in a binary file. I assume it’s an executable compiled file of some sort.

Now, comments don’t end up inside compiled files right? This has to be a string, not a comment??

What am I missing?

It is probably an error message on a very unlikely failure path / assertion. Those sorts of messages are effectively just comments.

Fair enough. I’d have appreciated technical correctness though. I’m a programmer and an error message isn’t a comment.