[HN Gopher] Fuzzing rust-minidump for Embarrassment and Crashes ... ___________________________________________________________________ Fuzzing rust-minidump for Embarrassment and Crashes - Part 2 Author : feross Score : 66 points Date : 2022-06-23 17:34 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (hacks.mozilla.org) (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! | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-06-23 23:00 UTC)