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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: 0.209s | source
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gigatexal ◴[23 Apr 25 19:17 UTC] No.43775701[source]▶
Use a debugger folks. A 10x dev cited this story to me about the ills of not using one.
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ajross ◴[23 Apr 25 19:26 UTC] No.43775777[source]▶
Tools like valgrind/asan/msan would have flagged this instantly too. Just a unit test of that vehicle loader would have seen it.

Really this is more a story about poor development practice than it is an interesting bug.

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1. avidiax ◴[23 Apr 25 19:36 UTC] No.43775868[source]▶
Problem with valgrind/asan/msan is that you have to start using these tools early in the development process. It can't be a "checklist" item before launch, or you'll have an insurmountable number of bugs, often with them baked in such that fixing the bug causes additional changes that introduce unrelated bugs.