alt Hacker NewsI assume the fact it is a third party application means debugging gets harder, and the business case for doing so is weaker/none.
But I would hope that some kind of reverse debugger triggered on one of these crashes would make it pretty simple to say "who wrote this 01".
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microgpt • yesterday at 3:22 PM
You could also look at modules loaded into all of those processes that crashed this way.
You usually hope that TTD points to the culprit in such situations. But once I encountered single-byte corruption that didn't make any sense in TTD trace, there was good value at write and next read was garbage. I never discovered whether that was CPU bug, corruption by GPU shaders, stray kernel writes, or whatever.(I think it's unlikely that CPU bug would manifest with both native and TTD-instrumented runs. Corrupted byte was inside heap allocated memory so it shouldn't be in GPU pagetables at all. Kernel writes wouldn't appear in TTD trace, so really I think that was most likely issue, but how to debug that...)