From: Ronald Dahlgren <ronald.dahlgren@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: thanks for malloc
To: otto@openbsd.org, tech@openbsd.org
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:58:37 -0400

Thank you for your patience, Marc.

This infuriating coda is all too frequent with the coding agents:

“You're right, and my step 3 was wrong.”

I see you went multiple rounds correcting the “greptile”.

Ron

On Sun, Jul 19, 2026 at 2:43 PM Marc Espie <marc.espie.openbsd@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Again, it makes life more interesting, but I'm happy about the challenge
> and the opportunity to fix bugs that shit like asan doesn't even see.
>
>
> Context:
>
> https://github.com/uniconproject/unicon/pull/629
>
> Yep, it only happens on OpenBSD, because most of the other OSes malloc to
> zero on first allocs.
>
>