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Re:Echo – Assembly program that prints the first positional ... by ycmbntrthrwaway on Monday January 02, 2017 @10:34AM (#13301659)
Once you are tired being praised, teach them some valgrind. It will solve most of their problems.
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Re:Echo – Assembly program that prints the first positional ... by userbinator on Monday January 02, 2017 @10:51AM (#13301770)
I'm pretty sure the bugs I found would not have been valgrind-able as they were unrelated to memory errors.
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Re:Echo – Assembly program that prints the first positional ... by ycmbntrthrwaway on Monday January 02, 2017 @12:11PM (#13302465)
From my experience most of the hard to trace errors come from uninitialized variables and they are usually valgrindable. It is VM-based so it can cache jumps and other conditions that depend one uninitialized vars via taint analysis.
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