
A Debugging Odyssey
Oxide and Friends
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Did You Get That Walk Off Home Run Feeling When You Scramble Someone's Registers?
The three that I ended up focusing the most on were all in the Go memory subsystem. When you scramble someone's registers, there will be lots of different kinds of failure modes. The one we've been talking about was this case where it blew an assertion thinking the thing was full when it was only like half allocated. That one, you kind of had to get further unlucky after hitting this problem in order to hit it. It must have also felt great to have so many of these different manifestations cleaned up by the same problem.
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