Tag Archives: bugs

Treating symptoms instead of the cause

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Andrzej Krzemieński

Compiler warnings can sometimes help us find bugs before we even build our program, but it only works provided that we can make use of the warnings. Especially, when we are aware that warnings detect only symptoms of the bugs … Continue reading →

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The GCC bug affects you

Posted on May 5, 2017 by Andrzej Krzemieński

This is a follow-up to my previous post about a bug in GCC. I was reading comments, and observed that some readers say that the example I used is rare, or artificial, or that it does not follow “good programming … Continue reading →

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A serious bug in GCC

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Andrzej Krzemieński

This post is to inform you about a bug in GCC that may cause memory (or other resource) leaks in your valid C++ programs.

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(Not) detecting bugs

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Andrzej Krzemieński

The following code contains a bug. A developer has spent quite some time looking for the source. The intent of this code is to iterate over two vectors simultaneously, from the first up to the one-before-last element. Thus the most … Continue reading →

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