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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 2d ago
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Is the mistake that they're allocating 1 byte and storing in a pointer to an int which is 4 bytes?
153 u/atanasius 2d ago It's allowed to assign to a pointer if it's not dereferenced. Malloc always returns a valid pointer. 53 u/vishal340 2d ago but accessing it will be issue right? 92 u/SoldRIP 2d ago that's undefined. 2 u/nullpotato 1d 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.
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It's allowed to assign to a pointer if it's not dereferenced. Malloc always returns a valid pointer.
53 u/vishal340 2d ago but accessing it will be issue right? 92 u/SoldRIP 2d ago that's undefined. 2 u/nullpotato 1d 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.
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but accessing it will be issue right?
92 u/SoldRIP 2d ago that's undefined. 2 u/nullpotato 1d 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.
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that's undefined.
2 u/nullpotato 1d 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.
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Undefined aka works fine on a dev build but explodes in release because all the debug info the compiler injects aren't there anymore.
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u/AdBrave2400 2d ago
Is the mistake that they're allocating 1 byte and storing in a pointer to an int which is 4 bytes?