alt Hacker NewsDebugging in C is soooo hard. When I was writing Malloc Lab in system course, there were uncountable undefined and out of range :(
Debugging in C is soooo hard. When I was writing Malloc Lab in system course, there were uncountable undefined and out of range :(
Yet, debugging memory corruption issues in C and C++ code with modern compiler toolchains and memory debugging tools is infinitely easier than 25 years ago.
(e.g. just compiling with address sanitizer and using static analyzers catch pretty much all of the 'trivial' memory corruption issues).