Unfathomable bugs #10: The Broken Windows Build
19 hours ago
- #debugging
- #software-bug
- #windows-compiler
- A bug in stimflow led to Windows build failures with access violation errors during CI.
- Debugging involved deleting large parts of the codebase to isolate a heisenbug.
- The bug was traced to a compiler issue in Microsoft Visual Studio's auto-vectorization.
- Attempts to report the bug failed due to Microsoft's website login and captcha problems.
- Reflections suggest using LLMs for debugging and removing Windows optimization to prevent segfaults.