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GCC 14 Boasts Nice ASCII Art For Visualizing Buffer Overflows

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GCC 14 Boasts Nice ASCII Art For Visualizing Buffer Overflows

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11mo ago

GCC 14 Boasts Nice ASCII Art For Visualizing Buffer Overflows

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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?
- 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.
  
  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.