Readme file for Memory Madness

This is an example project to demonstrate things that can go wrong with memory management in several languages. This repository is a work in progress meant for educational purposes.

WARNING: The code within this repository is purposefully written in a sloppy way and should never be used in any production system.

Toolchain

OS: Debian 11 - WSL2

• C#
  • dotnet SDK: 7.0.201
• C
  • gcc: 8.3.0 (Debian 8.3.0-6)
  • make: 4.2.1 (GNU Make)
• JS
  • node: 18.15.0
  • npm: 9.5.0
• Haskell
  • ghcup: 0.1.19.2
  • ghc: 9.2.5
  • cabal: 3.6.2.0
  • hls: 1.9.1.0
• Rust
  • rustup: 1.25.2 (17db695f1 2023-02-01)
  • rustc 1.68.0 (2c8cc3432 2023-03-06)

OS: Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS - GitHub Codespaces

• C#
  • dotnet SDK: 7.0.203
• C
  • gcc: 9.4.0 (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1)
  • make: 4.2.1 (GNU Make)
• JS
  • node: 19.9.0
  • npm: 9.6.3
• Haskell
  • ghcup: 0.1.19.2
  • ghc: 9.2.7
  • cabal: 3.6.2.0
  • hls: 1.10.0.0
• Rust
  • rustup: 1.26.0 (5af9b9484 2023-04-05)
  • rustc: 1.69.0 (84c898d65 2023-04-16)

Pseudo code

• Listen on port 9001 on any interface
  • receive a request, expecting {word}:{word_size}
  • log the request
  • take word_size characters from word
  • send the resulting string back to the client