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How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2 (cookieplmonster.github.io)

submitted 2 years ago by handnutaschnitte@feddit.org to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 years ago

Fun read. TL;DR Game was “luckily” reading uninitialized data until OS changed the memory layout and game started reading garbage.

[–] Bachavill@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I love articles like this that get into the nitty gritty of debugging.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

I love this. It's that code doesn't make a great audiobook otherwise I'd gladly fall asleep to this