[HN Gopher] Fuzzing rust-minidump for Embarrassment and Crashes ...
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       Fuzzing rust-minidump for Embarrassment and Crashes - Part 2
        
       Author : feross
       Score  : 66 points
       Date   : 2022-06-23 17:34 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (hacks.mozilla.org)
        
       | Gankra wrote:
       | Going into this project I was very high on the idea of "different
       | architectures should get completely independent stackwalker
       | backend implementations" (although they call in to some agnostic
       | machinery for CFI/symbols/registers). There are lots of platform-
       | specific hacks and making everything super abstract is a big
       | mess!
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       | But geez I have been burned a few too many times on the parts
       | that _are_ the same between some arches accidentally diverging
       | because I forgot to copy-paste between them. :(
       | 
       | (breakpad also has this approach and you can _reaaaallly_ see the
       | pain of this approach as every stackwalker has gotten wildly
       | inconsistent TLC so some have tons of fancy machinery and some
       | are super barebones. Makes it hard to tell if the divergence is
       | intentional or just an artifact of independent code.)
        
       | benreesman wrote:
       | This is now one of my favorite blogs on the punchy and hilarious
       | writing alone (the technical subject matter seems serious as hell
       | too).
       | 
       | "360 dunked on from outer space", we've all been there but still,
       | /r/brandnewsentence.
        
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