On Sunday, 17 August 2025 at 01:44:38 UTC, Monkyyy wrote:
On Sunday, 17 August 2025 at 01:19:41 UTC, Brother Bill wrote:
Merely pointing to an invalid address will not produce UB
(undefined behavior)
I linked you to the gc #wontfix list, it's explicitly the magic
words "UB".
Idk what's actually happens(ub isn't a useful distinction),
someone would have to extensively test it, but it's expressly
not "do whatever" someone must've tried the xor linked list and
found it doesn't work in some case.
An invalid pointer outside common use patterns could confuse
the GC and some invalid pointers are *known* to confuse the
GC(they should've keep the code rather then their wontfix list
*tsk*)
Understood. Wild garbage pointers will confuse the GC.
Will a pointer just after a slice confuse the GC, or is the GC
expecting this case?
