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What are some of the biggest challenges you've faced in game development, and how did you tackle them? (programming.dev)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you think address or thread sanitizer would have been able to catch this? It sounds like it would.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Hm... not sure it would have. Something simple like overwriting freed memory with an identifiable pattern wouldn't have helped, because by the time the crash happened, the actor's memory had been reallocated and was being used for something else.

This was on the Wii, which had some pretty bare-bones development tools, so it wouldn't have been real easy to try to use something like valgrind to do more sophisticated memory debugging or anything. It was basically single-threaded, too, BTW (I think audio and input were based on interrupt handlers), and I made it more so with the repeatable build.