12 Mar
2023
12 Mar
'23
4:46 p.m.
On 3/12/23, Ralph Corderoy <ralph(a)inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
Do you ever find things are so messed up that stdio has trouble whereas
using write(2) with compile-time memory allocations for a buffer would
have a better chance of reaching the TTY?
I hate it when that happens. Even worse is when adding the write(2)
with compile-time memory allocations makes the bug go away. I once
had to spend three days camped out in someone's office debugging a
compiler crash. The crash only happened 4 hours into a massive
multi-file compilation, and this guy's login session was the only one
where the problem reproduced under the debugger. Heisenbugs are hell.
-Paul W.