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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
How do you get segfaults under linux unless there is a horrible bug in the indexer? Nevermind, I probably just answered that myself. The indexer has a giant bug. But in all seriousness, shouldn't the compiler have caught that?
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Segfaults can can come from operating on bad data. Compilers can't tell whether there is code in place to guard against out of range input or whether the algorithm is correct.