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How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2

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1371 points yett | 3 comments | 23 Apr 25 14:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.756s | source
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amenghra ◴[23 Apr 25 18:08 UTC] No.43774928[source]▶
IMHO, if something isn’t part of the contract, it should be randomized. Eg if iteration order of maps isn’t guaranteed in your language, then your language should go out of its way to randomize it. Otherwise, you end up with brittle code: code that works fine until it doesn’t.
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1. roseway4 ◴[23 Apr 25 18:13 UTC] No.43774993[source]▶
iirc, Go intentionally randomizes map ordering for just this reason.
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2. withinboredom ◴[23 Apr 25 19:06 UTC] No.43775587[source]▶
Yep, and then you get crash reports you can’t reproduce.
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3. cristaloleg ◴[24 Apr 25 07:13 UTC] No.43780029[source]▶
Same can be said about pointer addresses (random for each run). But ASLR exists for a specific reason.