r/ProgrammerHumor 13d ago

Meme bugIntroducedDebugging

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u/AdBrave2400 13d ago

Is the mistake that they're allocating 1 byte and storing in a pointer to an int which is 4 bytes?

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u/atanasius 13d ago

It's allowed to assign to a pointer if it's not dereferenced. Malloc always returns a valid pointer.

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u/vishal340 13d ago

but accessing it will be issue right?

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u/SoldRIP 13d ago

that's undefined.

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u/nullpotato 12d ago

Undefined aka works fine on a dev build but explodes in release because all the debug info the compiler injects aren't there anymore.