I've bumped into this blog post by imtiyazrasool92 (unfortunately, it's already deleted due to downvotes). They've found out that simply declaring a global variable called read
makes your program behave strangely on Codeforces: the outcome of 130645392 is RUNTIME_ERROR
, Exit code is 2147483647
, and here is the code:
#include <iostream>
int read;
int main(){
std::ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);
std::cin >> read;
}
I was unable to minimize the example any further.
The original post was even more interesting: 130642683 is Accepted, but 130643108 is Runtime Error all of a sudden.
The compiler on Codeforces is G++17 9.2.0 (64 bit, msys2)
. However, I was able to reproduce the issue both on my local machine (g++ (Rev2, Built by MSYS2 project) 10.3.0
) and the latest GCC on Godbolt as long as the -static
key is used for compilation just like on Codeforces. Clang is also affected.
It looks like the read
variable here replaces the standard Linux read
function (which is emulated by msys2). Here is a symmetrical example:
#include <iostream>
int write;
int main(){
std::ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);
std::cout << 10;
}
And here is one more (130646314), although now I at least get some warnings:
int malloc;
int main(){
}
a.cpp:1:5: warning: built-in function 'malloc' declared as non-function [-Wbuiltin-declaration-mismatch]
1 | int malloc;
| ^~~~~~
My understanding is that all these examples invoke ODR violation, which makes the program ill-formed (invalid) without any requirements on the compiler to emit the error. However, I am not sure, so I asked on StackOverflow.
Any other ideas?