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		magicalhippo on May 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On rebooting: the unreasonable effectiveness of tu... One such instance is when debug mode causes memory allocations to be zeroed, while release mode doesn't. Always a recipe for a good time.

gjadi on May 25, 2022 [–]

Or your printf changes:

- the timing of execution so nothing works => hello USB driver!

- the scheduling of your threads

- the memory layout => a memory overflow won't crash your program the same way or not at all

I feel lucky I've enough hairs to pull them out on this kind of bugs. Fun time indeed.

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