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		leni536 on June 21, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug a... AFAIK ASAN does not catch uninitialized variables, MSAN does. MSAN is significantly harder to set up.

JonChesterfield on June 21, 2024 [–]

Branch on uninit lights up beautifully in valgrind which has no set up, just run valgrind ./a.out

leni536 on June 21, 2024 | [–]

Good point, although sometimes valgrind is too slow.

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