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