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GCC 14 Boasts Nice ASCII Art For Visualizing Buffer Overflows (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/c_lang

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[–] 0x0 1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Aren't there compiler warnings for potential overflows already, that come in the form of warning: something when compiling? Aren't runtime overflows detected using the coredump in gdb, not gcc?

Shiny ASCII art seems like a waste of time and/or calling the dev stupid. What am i missing here?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Well, I don't mind being called stupid if it makes my debugging easier. For many people visual/ graphical representation is much easier to comprehend than a block of text.

[–] 0x0 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It is, our brains are graphical. So is gdbs TUI. Is this another tool? 'Cos ASCII art in compiler output just seems odd to me.

[–] RonSijm 2 points 7 months ago

Not all features are for everyone. Maybe you're experienced enough that showing a graph seems like an overkill when you can just read the warnings.

But I can imagine for someone that's more entry level the graphs could make it easier to understand what the problem is

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