bug-compatible
Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0." [Jargon File]Nearby terms:
buffer overrun ♦ bug ♦ bug-compatible ♦ bug fix ♦ bug fix release ♦ Bugfoot
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