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Got to love Reddit: reddit.com/r/programming/ I shared an interesting example of how uninitialized memory can be more complicated than it appears even below the layer of a language's abstract machine and compiler implementation. Someone tries to claim I'm wrong to talk about it.
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They sent a follow-up too. "Sorry if I offended you" is a classy start followed by continuing to misrepresent what I said to have an imaginary debate and finishing with the amazing "I understand you think you weren't saying that". Why am I not surprised they're a Rust evangelist?
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Trying to police talking about an interesting low-level malloc implementation detail because they think having knowledge is harmful is ridiculous. I think it's valuable to know there's a runtime optimization based on reading uninit memory being UB, not just compiler optimization.
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