Scribble past a malloc block and the next header dies: the most diabolical heisenbugs
tetsuoai · x · 2026-09-19
A pithy dev observation: scribble past a malloc block and the next heap header dies, then the next stdio call dumps core — heisenbugs of the most diabolical subtlety, where the crash site is far from the actual corruption.
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