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/atanasius 2d 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 2d ago

but accessing it will be issue right?

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u/mckenzie_keith 2d ago

You are not allowed to de-reference a pointer after freeing it.

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u/Niwrats 2d ago

who's gonna stop me?