http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightwatch.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightw... in particular is a thing of

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightwatch.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightw... in particular is a thing of beauty. Indeed, the common discovery mode for an impossibly large buffer error is that your program seems to be working fine, and then it tries to display a string that should say “Hello world,” but instead it prints “#a[5]:3!” or another syntactically correct Perl script, and you’re like WHAT THE HOW THE, and then you realize that your prodigal memory accesses have been stomping around the heap like the Incredible Hulk when asked to write an essay entitled “Smashing Considered Harmful.”