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Cosmic Rays? (lemmy.tgxn.net)

submitted 1 year ago by tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] chkno@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Any sane compiler will simplify this into

    function cosmicRayDetector() {
      while(true) {
      }
    }

C++ may further 'simplify' this into

    function cosmicRayDetector() {
      return
    }

[–] LuciferMorningWood@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Iirc the issue was that while(true) would be removed while it should be replaced with ret and this caused a bug where the binary would execute next function

But I believe this way of cosmic ray detection would work

volatile bool condition = true;
while(condition) {
}
printf("Cosmic ray detected");