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Interesting how SimCity relied on use-after-free working and that was the issue.

Obviously the correct solution was to rewrite SimCity for Windows 3.x in Rust, thus avoiding this very common bug. /s

I've been updating some MUDs to work on "modern" OS's, and have run into so many use-after-free issues that it's almost become a hobby fixing them.

I now maintain the MUD I played as a child and have been playing whack a mole with bugs like this for years. I'm a very poor C coder so still run into issues pretty often! Interestingly the game is much more stable on my MBP that I use for development than it is on the production Ubuntu 18 server I run it on. Not too bad for a Diku.

Do you hang out in the Mud Coder's Guild Slack at all? You might find it interesting: https://mudcoders.com/join-the-mud-coders-guild-6770301ddcbd...

> Do you hang out in the Mud Coder's Guild Slack at all? You might find it interesting

I don't, but I was named by name in "Playing MUDs on the Internet" :)

I have copies of Epic, SillyMUD, Phoenix, and now Kaos.

MUD?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD

Or C++!

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/tree/master/Micropol...

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