r/ProgrammerHumor 2d ago

Meme bugIntroducedDebugging

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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?

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u/mckenzie_keith 2d ago

De-referenced a pointer after freeing it. But the joke here is that the bug was not in the original code.

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u/WisestAirBender 2d ago

The original code wasn't returning anything though. Isn't that a problem

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u/mckenzie_keith 2d ago

No. main() doesn't need to return anything.