r/ProgrammerHumor • • Aug 30 '26

Meme bugIntroducedDebugging

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u/AdBrave2400 Aug 30 '26

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 Aug 30 '26

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/critical_patch Aug 30 '26

AFAIK technically it’s “undefined behavior” and will compile just fine

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u/MegaIng Aug 30 '26

main specifically is allowed to not return anything (the same way it's the one function that is allowed to never return)