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[–] towerful 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

// increase the dynamically allocated memory space of a word sized integer stored at the memory address represented by the symbol "x" by the integer 1 and terminate the instruction

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait why is it dynamically allocated and why are you increasing the memory. Something is very wrong here

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Found the bug. Thank goodness for comments.

[–] Anders429 3 points 1 year ago

Oh, is this what they meant by "commenting your code"?

[–] Anders429 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why the heck does it need to be dynamically allocated? Just put that puppy on the stack.

[–] towerful 6 points 1 year ago

That's what it used to do.
But it was a bug, and the code has been fixed.