Back when Intel introduced the 80286, they didn't quite document everything right away. Errata were needed. Then the 80386 changed things. And then someone convinced them to add just one more feature at the last minute, which didn't get documented properly again.
The History of a Security Hole takes a look at the problems introduced by the I/O Permission Bitmap (IOPB) in the 80286, and how fallout from the implementation caused a security hole in all versions of OpenBSD up to 6.3 and NetBSD up to 4.4.
Conclusion? This programming thing is hard.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Snotnose on Thursday September 06 2018, @06:34PM
They did. Keep in mind this was before ANSI C, and the people adopting C were assembly language programmers. We were quite capable of looking at the compiler output to ensure our structs lined up like they should.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.