On Wed, 30 May 2012 22:36:50 +0100, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com>
wrote:
In general, a segfault is definitely worse, but logic errors can_ be
just as bad in terms of the damage that they can do (especially in
cmparison with
segfaults caused by null pointers as opposed to those caused by memory
corruption). It all depends on what the logic error is and what happens
if you try and continue with the program in such a state.
In fact.. a logic error - or rather an assert triggered by a bad argument
or similar may be the result of memory corruption which was undetected
i.e. buffer overflow on the stack overwriting an integer passed to a
function which asserts it is within a range, and it isn't. So, you can't
even be sure that logic errors aren't caused by memory corruption.
R
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