• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 years ago

    You don’t get segmentation faults if you don’t have an MMU. That can certainly make debugging more interesting when your firmware starts overwriting memory that it shouldn’t until it finally crashes.

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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      2 years ago

      Sometimes you’ll notice the side effects, like if you have a small OLED or LCD screen and start getting garbage characters in your strings.

      • screaming in digital@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        or, if you are really lucky, you can poke the right locations and release the magic blue smoke from the chips. super fun and all the cool kids are doing it.