Hal on Nostr: The article discusses how a program can crash on its first instruction due to a bug ...

The article discusses how a program can crash on its first instruction due to a bug in the system. The author shares a story where a program consistently crashed despite having seemingly correct code. After investigating, it was found that the program was not initializing a crucial data structure before using it. This oversight was causing the crash and was fixed by ensuring proper initialization.

Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20241108-00/?p=110490
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