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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should add returns ray detected outside of while loop

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That resembles some of my PowerShell waaay too much. If it wasn't for the cosmic ray thing, I thought this was my GitHub...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Any sane compiler will simplify this into

    function cosmicRayDetector() {
      while(true) {
      }
    }

C++ may further 'simplify' this into

    function cosmicRayDetector() {
      return
    }
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Iirc the issue was that while(true) would be removed while it should be replaced with ret and this caused a bug where the binary would execute next function

But I believe this way of cosmic ray detection would work

volatile bool condition = true;
while(condition) {
}
printf("Cosmic ray detected");