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A bug that disappears or changes behaviour when you are trying to track it down.
-An example cause of this is the act of debugging changes the program's execution (for example, uninitialised memory patterns or a RaceCondition) in such a way that the bug is not triggered.
-See JargonFile:heisenbug
, the
"BUGS" section
of assert(3)
+"What do yo mean
, I shouldn't initialize variables in an assert(3)?
"
+
+An example
of this is when the act of debugging changes the program's execution (for example, uninitialised memory patterns or a RaceCondition) in such a way that the bug is not triggered.
+
+See also:
+* __BUGS__ in
assert(3)
+* JargonFile:heisenbug
+----
+CategoryProgrammingBugs
