alt Hacker NewsTools like valgrind/asan/msan would have flagged this instantly too. Just a unit test of that vehicle loader would have seen it.
Really this is more a story about poor development practice than it is an interesting bug.
Tools like valgrind/asan/msan would have flagged this instantly too. Just a unit test of that vehicle loader would have seen it.
Really this is more a story about poor development practice than it is an interesting bug.
Problem with valgrind/asan/msan is that you have to start using these tools early in the development process. It can't be a "checklist" item before launch, or you'll have an insurmountable number of bugs, often with them baked in such that fixing the bug causes additional changes that introduce unrelated bugs.