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lidavidm | 1 year ago

https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2019/07/14/uninit.html perhaps (the OP also talks about this when linking to a talk about jemalloc)

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MrBuddyCasino|1 year ago

Interesting.

Tl;dr: its not to do with any hardware concept, the compiler can substitute any value for a read of uninitialised memory, and the value does not have to be stable.