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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 | 1 comments | 23 Apr 25 14:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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pmarreck ◴[23 Apr 25 17:27 UTC] No.43774498[source]▶
My takeaway, speaking as someone who leans towards functional programming and immutability, is "this is yet another example of a mutability problem that could never happen in a functional context"

(so, for example, this bug would have never been created by Rust unless it was deeply misused)

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gavinray ◴[23 Apr 25 17:40 UTC] No.43774657[source]▶
Rust protects you from external file data you read being incorrect?

That's one hell of a language!

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1. mbel ◴[23 Apr 25 18:16 UTC] No.43775029[source]▶
Most popular languages would prevent this. In this case it’s as simple as having more sensible reader API than sscanf in standard library and forcing variables to be initialized.