A program just crashed on me with a segmentation fault. That reminds me of the "Not planned" closed bug from 2023 in makepkg. makepkg crashes (at least back then) when given an extremely large PKGBUILD as an argument.

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/work_items/64
(As far as I can tell, it's not particularly catastrophic - just a poor user experience due to a vague error message)

#ArchLinux

Segmentation fault with many conflicts (#64) · Issues · Pacman / Pacman · GitLab

Hello, I'm planning to write a package that will prevent me from installing non-free software (with some exceptions like microcode). However, when I try to compile...

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And Segementation Fault reminds me of my early C++ programs, where I tried to implement simple ciphers like Caesar or sorting algorithms like QuickSort.

#Programming #CPP