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Classic old school problem would be your bug overwrites a pointer with garbage. And then whatever that points to, like OS code or data, gets trashed next. Your

Classic old school problem would be your bug overwrites a pointer with garbage. And then whatever that points to, like OS code or data, gets trashed next. Your computer starts acting 'weird'. Worse changing random unrelated things would make the problem go away. Huge time sink.

ncmncm 4y ago
As I said, it was needed for low-skilled coders.
- jeremyjh 4y ago
  Yes because there exist high-skill programmers who never wrote a bug in C.