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"text": "[MUSIC PLAYING]",
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"text": "DAVID J. MALAN: All right, this\nis CS50, and this is week 4.",
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"duration": 4.873
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{
"text": "So let's consider first what we did\nlast time, which was focus on numbers",
"start": 20.28,
"duration": 5.15
},
{
"text": "and focus on how we can search\nthem and how we can sort them.",
"start": 25.43,
"duration": 3.44
},
{
"text": "And in particular, we took a\nlook at a number of algorithms",
"start": 28.87,
"duration": 3.2
},
{
"text": "that we finally gave names to, a couple\nof which we actually saw back in week",
"start": 32.07,
"duration": 3.26
},
{
"text": "0, but didn't treat as formally.",
"start": 35.33,
"duration": 2.06
},
{
"text": "So we looked more formally\nlast time at linear search,",
"start": 37.39,
"duration": 2.84
},
{
"text": "this process of searching elements\nfrom left to right or right to left",
"start": 40.23,
"duration": 3.74
},
{
"text": "as though you're walking along\na line looking for some value.",
"start": 43.97,
"duration": 2.94
},
{
"text": "We looked at binary search, a\ndivide and conquer algorithm",
"start": 46.91,
"duration": 2.94
},
{
"text": "whereby we started, in\nthis case, in the middle,",
"start": 49.85,
"duration": 2.092
},
{
"text": "and then we looked left to\nright and then went to the left,",
"start": 51.942,
"duration": 2.458
},
{
"text": "went to the right, and then did\nthe same problem again and again.",
"start": 54.4,
"duration": 2.87
},
{
"text": "We looked also at bubble sort.",
"start": 57.27,
"duration": 1.912
},
{
"text": "How do you get to the\npoint where you can",
"start": 59.182,
"duration": 1.708
},
{
"text": "use an algorithm like\nbinary search, which",
"start": 60.89,
"duration": 2.29
},
{
"text": "assumes that your inputs are sorted?",
"start": 63.18,
"duration": 2.32
},
{
"text": "So how do you get to that sorted state?",
"start": 65.5,
"duration": 1.76
},
{
"text": "Well, bubble sort was one\nalgorithm that essentially",
"start": 67.26,
"duration": 2.34
},
{
"text": "swapped elements pairwise from\nleft to right, from left to right,",
"start": 69.6,
"duration": 3.55
},
{
"text": "until finally the biggest\nelements bubbled up to the top,",
"start": 73.15,
"duration": 2.48
},
{
"text": "and the whole list\nwas ultimately sorted.",
"start": 75.63,
"duration": 2.3
},
{
"text": "But we also looked at selection sort.",
"start": 77.93,
"duration": 1.74
},
{
"text": "And selection sort is the\nname implied, selected,",
"start": 79.67,
"duration": 3.11
},
{
"text": "then smallest element again and again\nand again, plucking it out of the list,",
"start": 82.78,
"duration": 4.22
},
{
"text": "and putting it where it belongs.",
"start": 87.0,
"duration": 1.55
},
{
"text": "Insertion sort, meanwhile, walked\nthrough the list really just once,",
"start": 88.55,
"duration": 3.55
},
{
"text": "and as it encountered\neach element, it then",
"start": 92.1,
"duration": 2.34
},
{
"text": "inserted it into the sorted half of\nthe list, the left half of the list",
"start": 94.44,
"duration": 4.7
},
{
"text": "in its proper place.",
"start": 99.14,
"duration": 1.53
},
{
"text": "And then lastly, and where we really\nconcluded and really got more bang",
"start": 100.67,
"duration": 4.6
},
{
"text": "for our buck was this\nfinal algorithm merge",
"start": 105.27,
"duration": 2.36
},
{
"text": "sort, which actually solved this same\nproblem no less correctly, but so much",
"start": 107.63,
"duration": 5.2
},
{
"text": "more efficiently.",
"start": 112.83,
"duration": 1.12
},
{
"text": "And indeed, lends itself perhaps\nto a fundamentally better design",
"start": 113.95,
"duration": 3.17
},
{
"text": "in so far as it leverages a much\nbetter running time, so to speak.",
"start": 117.12,
"duration": 4.46
},
{
"text": "In fact, we started to ascribe\nthese kinds of formulas",
"start": 121.58,
"duration": 2.9
},
{
"text": "to the running times of or the\nperformance of our algorithms n",
"start": 124.48,
"duration": 3.49
},
{
"text": "squared, otherwise known\nas quadratic, whereby",
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"duration": 2.66
},
{
"text": "you take n times n number of\nsteps or minutes or seconds",
"start": 130.63,
"duration": 3.37
},
{
"text": "or some unit of measure, n log in,\nwhich is actually what we achieved",
"start": 134.0,
"duration": 3.8
},
{
"text": "with the merge source,\nwhich was much faster",
"start": 137.8,
"duration": 2.48
},
{
"text": "recall than the end squared algorithms\nlike bubble sort and selection sort",
"start": 140.28,
"duration": 3.17
},
{
"text": "and insertion sort in\ntheir upper bounds.",
"start": 143.45,
"duration": 2.32
},
{
"text": "n would be something linear, like\na straight line relationship.",
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"duration": 2.85
},
{
"text": "Logarithmic of n, log\nof n, log base 2 of n,",
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"duration": 2.944
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{
"text": "technically, would be\nsomething like week 0's divide",
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"duration": 2.166
},
{
"text": "and conquer approach\nlooking for Mike Smith,",
"start": 153.73,
"duration": 2.18
},
{
"text": "as well as last time's binary search.",
"start": 155.91,
"duration": 2.174
},
{
"text": "And then one, which doesn't\nhave to be literally one step.",
"start": 158.084,
"duration": 2.416
},
{
"text": "Maybe it's two, maybe it's 10, but\nit is a fixed finite constant number",
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"duration": 4.2
},
{
"text": "of steps.",
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"duration": 0.63
},
{
"text": "And that too might be the\nrunning time of some algorithm.",
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"duration": 2.56
},
{
"text": "Now how do we describe the\nrunning times of algorithms?",
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"duration": 2.81
},
{
"text": "Well, we use some special\nnotation, asymptotic notation,",
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"duration": 3.53
},
{
"text": "so to speak, which while it might\nlook cryptic at first glance,",
"start": 174.23,
"duration": 2.71
},
{
"text": "really is just a handy way of succinctly\nexpressing the fact that you know what",
"start": 176.94,
"duration": 3.81
},
{
"text": "the upper bound on some\nalgorithms running time is,",
"start": 180.75,
"duration": 2.7
},
{
"text": "what the lower bounds on some\nalgorithms running time is.",
"start": 183.45,
"duration": 2.62
},
{
"text": "And if those are one in\nthe same formulas in theta,",
"start": 186.07,
"duration": 3.09
},
{
"text": "do you have a coincidence of the two\nof big O, so speak, and capital theta.",
"start": 189.16,
"duration": 5.49
},
{
"text": "So that, while Greek,\nliterally is just a way",
"start": 194.65,
"duration": 2.17
},
{
"text": "of expressing a bit more succinctly\nwhat these running times are.",
"start": 196.82,
"duration": 2.96
},
{
"text": "And we'll continue to\nrevisit this issue as we",
"start": 199.78,
"duration": 1.916
},
{
"text": "look at more algorithms and\nsoon data structures still.",
"start": 201.696,
"duration": 2.894
},
{
"text": "But this time, we apologize.",
"start": 204.59,
"duration": 3.58
},
{
"text": "We pull back a layer here and admit\nthat there is no such thing as a string.",
"start": 208.17,
"duration": 6.73
},
{
"text": "Indeed, all this time we've been saying\nthat there's ins, and there's floats,",
"start": 214.9,
"duration": 3.35
},
{
"text": "and there's chars, and\nthere's doubles and more.",
"start": 218.25,
"duration": 2.075
},
{
"text": "And we've also been\nsaying there are strings,",
"start": 220.325,
"duration": 1.875
},
{
"text": "but there really aren't strings.",
"start": 222.2,
"duration": 1.76
},
{
"text": "This is sort of a figment of the\nimagination of our so-called CS50",
"start": 223.96,
"duration": 3.25
},
{
"text": "library.",
"start": 227.21,
"duration": 0.85
},
{
"text": "But it's a pedagogical\nsimplification that we've",
"start": 228.06,
"duration": 2.28
},
{
"text": "been using for the past\nseveral weeks, so as to not get",
"start": 230.34,
"duration": 3.32
},
{
"text": "lost in the weeds, the\nlower level implementation",
"start": 233.66,
"duration": 2.234
},
{
"text": "details of what a string\nis, so that we can just get",
"start": 235.894,
"duration": 2.166
},
{
"text": "real work done in these first weeks.",
"start": 238.06,
"duration": 2.01
},
{
"text": "But now we'll begin to\nlook underneath that hood",
"start": 240.07,
"duration": 2.58
},
{
"text": "and see what a string actually\nis and what the implications are.",
"start": 242.65,
"duration": 3.87
},
{
"text": "And it turns out, while more\ncomplicated in some sense,",
"start": 246.52,
"duration": 3.18
},
{
"text": "it really just boils down\nto some first principles,",
"start": 249.7,
"duration": 2.95
},
{
"text": "what it is the computer is\ndoing underneath that hood.",
"start": 252.65,
"duration": 3.01
},
{
"text": "So let's take a look at string first\nby way of a couple of examples.",
"start": 255.66,
"duration": 4.9
},
{
"text": "Let's go in to CS50 IDE, create a new\nfile, save it as Compare zero dot C,",
"start": 260.56,
"duration": 5.27
},
{
"text": "and look at the little program\nthat actually doesn't necessarily",
"start": 265.83,
"duration": 3.45
},
{
"text": "do what we think it's going to do.",
"start": 269.28,
"duration": 2.72
},
{
"text": "In particular, let me go\nahead and include our typical,",
"start": 272.0,
"duration": 2.91
},
{
"text": "include CS 50 dot H. And let me go ahead\nand include standard IO dot H as well.",
"start": 274.91,
"duration": 5.29
},
{
"text": "Let me go ahead and use\nmain void, so I'm not",
"start": 280.2,
"duration": 2.01
},
{
"text": "going to worry about any\ncommand line arguments for now.",
"start": 282.21,
"duration": 2.47
},
{
"text": "And then I'm going to go ahead\nand just prompt the user.",
"start": 284.68,
"duration": 2.333
},
{
"text": "Hey user, give me a string\ncalled S for instance.",
"start": 287.013,
"duration": 2.144
},
{
"text": "And then I'm going to have no newline.",
"start": 289.157,
"duration": 1.583
},
{
"text": "I just want that all in one same line.",
"start": 290.74,
"duration": 1.99
},
{
"text": "Now I'm going to go\nahead and do string S,",
"start": 292.73,
"duration": 3.22
},
{
"text": "gets gets string, open\nparen and close parens,",
"start": 295.95,
"duration": 2.51
},
{
"text": "so as to get a string from the user.",
"start": 298.46,
"duration": 2.12
},
{
"text": "And then, let me do this.",
"start": 300.58,
"duration": 1.09
},
{
"text": "Let me also print T colon and ask\nthe user, essentially, for a string",
"start": 301.67,
"duration": 4.33
},
{
"text": "that I'll call T, since T\ncomes after S quite simply.",
"start": 306.0,
"duration": 4.32
},
{
"text": "And now let me just compare these\nstrings as the filename suggests.",
"start": 310.32,
"duration": 3.37
},
{
"text": "So I know how to compare,\nnot with if s equals t,",
"start": 313.69,
"duration": 4.706
},
{
"text": "because that's the assignment operator.",
"start": 318.396,
"duration": 1.624
},
{
"text": "But we know that s equals equals t\nshould compare the values on the left",
"start": 320.02,
"duration": 5.062
},
{
"text": "and on the right.",
"start": 325.082,
"duration": 0.708
},
{
"text": "So let's try this.",
"start": 325.79,
"duration": 0.88
},
{
"text": "So if s equals equals t, then I'm\ngoing to go ahead and print out same.",
"start": 326.67,
"duration": 5.46
},
{
"text": "Elts, they are presumably\ndifference, so I'm",
"start": 332.13,
"duration": 2.43
},
{
"text": "going to go ahead and print out\ndifferent with a newline character",
"start": 334.56,
"duration": 3.98
},
{
"text": "and then save it.",
"start": 338.54,
"duration": 1.08
},
{
"text": "So a pretty simple program, so let me\ngo down into my terminal window and run",
"start": 339.62,
"duration": 3.69
},
{
"text": "make compare 0.",
"start": 343.31,
"duration": 2.12
},
{
"text": "Now let me go ahead and\nrun dot slash compare 0. s,",
"start": 345.43,
"duration": 4.49
},
{
"text": "I'm going to go ahead\nand type in Zamyla.",
"start": 349.92,
"duration": 3.84
},
{
"text": "And I'm going to go ahead\nnow and type in Maria.",
"start": 353.76,
"duration": 3.127
},
{
"text": "OK, and they're different.",
"start": 356.887,
"duration": 1.083
},
{
"text": "I expected as much.",
"start": 357.97,
"duration": 1.22
},
{
"text": "Now let's go ahead and run this again.",
"start": 359.19,
"duration": 1.83
},
{
"text": "Again with Zamyla.",
"start": 361.02,
"duration": 1.696
},
{
"text": "And let's just say\nZamyla again, different.",
"start": 362.716,
"duration": 4.744
},
{
"text": "What did I do wrong?",
"start": 367.46,
"duration": 1.004
},
{
"text": "Let me try this again.",
"start": 368.464,
"duration": 0.916
},
{
"text": "Maybe it's the capitalization.",
"start": 369.38,
"duration": 1.63
},
{
"text": "So Zamyla in all lower case, different.",
"start": 371.01,
"duration": 5.11
},
{
"text": "Well, maybe it's just Zamyla's name.",
"start": 376.12,
"duration": 1.69
},
{
"text": "Let me try Rob or RLB?",
"start": 377.81,
"duration": 3.76
},
{
"text": "How about RLB?",
"start": 381.57,
"duration": 1.2
},
{
"text": "Those are different, as is Rob and Rob.",
"start": 382.77,
"duration": 2.86
},
{
"text": "So what is going on?",
"start": 385.63,
"duration": 1.82
},
{
"text": "Those strings pretty\nmuch look the same to me.",
"start": 387.45,
"duration": 2.12
},
{
"text": "I'm typing the same\nincantation of strings,",
"start": 389.57,
"duration": 2.273
},
{
"text": "so what is it that's going on here?",
"start": 391.843,
"duration": 2.777
},
{
"text": "You know what, let me do a\ntest with something else.",
"start": 394.62,
"duration": 2.46
},
{
"text": "Let me go ahead and\ncreate a new file here.",
"start": 397.08,
"duration": 2.61
},
{
"text": "I'm going to call this copyzero.c.",
"start": 399.69,
"duration": 1.66
},
{
"text": "Maybe I'm just misunderstanding\nhow comparison works.",
"start": 401.35,
"duration": 2.78
},
{
"text": "But surely I should be able to copy\na string and make an identical copy,",
"start": 404.13,
"duration": 3.11
},
{
"text": "so let's do that now.",
"start": 407.24,
"duration": 1.14
},
{
"text": "Let me go ahead and create\na file called copyzero.c.",
"start": 408.38,
"duration": 4.58
},
{
"text": "And let me do an include cs50.h.",
"start": 412.96,
"duration": 2.75
},
{
"text": "Include standard io.h into\nmain void, so just as before.",
"start": 415.71,
"duration": 6.027
},
{
"text": "And now, let me go ahead and\njust prompt the user like before.",
"start": 421.737,
"duration": 2.583
},
{
"text": "Give me a string s.",
"start": 424.32,
"duration": 1.3
},
{
"text": "And I'll put that in a variable,\ns, calling get string as before.",
"start": 425.62,
"duration": 4.23
},
{
"text": "And now, I remember from prior\nclasses that I'm supposed to do,",
"start": 429.85,
"duration": 5.09
},
{
"text": "if s equals equals null, maybe I\nneed to do some error checking here.",
"start": 434.94,
"duration": 4.71
},
{
"text": "And if that's the case, I'm\ngoing to arbitrarily return 1.",
"start": 439.65,
"duration": 2.48
},
{
"text": "So recall that main can return values.",
"start": 442.13,
"duration": 2.12
},
{
"text": "0 means all is well.",
"start": 444.25,
"duration": 1.2
},
{
"text": "1 or any other non-zero value\nmeans something is wrong.",
"start": 445.45,
"duration": 2.6
},
{
"text": "So maybe that's what I was doing wrong\nearlier, just not error checking.",
"start": 448.05,
"duration": 3.0
},
{
"text": "So let's try that.",
"start": 451.05,
"duration": 1.04
},
{
"text": "Now, let me declare a variable of type\nstring called t and assign it to s.",
"start": 452.09,
"duration": 5.94
},
{
"text": "So in other words, I\nwant to copy s into t.",
"start": 458.03,
"duration": 3.09
},
{
"text": "And I know that this happens\nfrom the right to the left.",
"start": 461.12,
"duration": 2.35
},
{
"text": "So that's as I think it should be.",
"start": 463.47,
"duration": 2.41
},
{
"text": "And then, if strleng of\nt is greater than 0--",
"start": 465.88,
"duration": 7.302
},
{
"text": "you know what, I'm going\nto do one other thing.",
"start": 473.182,
"duration": 1.958
},
{
"text": "Not just copy it.",
"start": 475.14,
"duration": 0.924
},
{
"text": "I'm going to go ahead and do this.",
"start": 476.064,
"duration": 1.416
},
{
"text": "Recall, that you can\ntreat strings as arrays.",
"start": 477.48,
"duration": 2.02
},
{
"text": "So I'm going to say the zeroth\ncharacter, the first character of t--",
"start": 479.5,
"duration": 3.477
},
{
"text": "you know what?",
"start": 482.977,
"duration": 0.583
},
{
"text": "I want to uppercase it.",
"start": 483.56,
"duration": 1.61
},
{
"text": "I want to really make sure that\nthese two strings are indeed",
"start": 485.17,
"duration": 2.79
},
{
"text": "different as I intend.",
"start": 487.96,
"duration": 1.58
},
{
"text": "And let's go ahead now and do this.",
"start": 489.54,
"duration": 3.3
},
{
"text": "Let me go ahead now and do printf of s.",
"start": 492.84,
"duration": 4.5
},
{
"text": "And let me plug-in s's\nvalue in a new line.",
"start": 497.34,
"duration": 2.18
},
{
"text": "Plug-in s.",
"start": 499.52,
"duration": 0.7
},
{
"text": "And then printf t:%s\nfor a placeholder again.",
"start": 500.22,
"duration": 4.87
},
{
"text": "Comma t semi-colon.",
"start": 505.09,
"duration": 1.74
},
{
"text": "So in other words, if the length\nof t is greater than zero,",
"start": 506.83,
"duration": 3.69
},
{
"text": "let's capitalize it by\nchanging that first character.",
"start": 510.52,
"duration": 2.764
},
{
"text": "And then, just print out s and t.",
"start": 513.284,
"duration": 1.375
},
{
"text": "And surely, by capitalizing only t, I\nshould see only one capitalized word.",
"start": 514.659,
"duration": 5.091
},
{
"text": "Now, I'm using both\nstrleng and two upper.",
"start": 519.75,
"duration": 1.812
},
{
"text": "So rather than let Clang have a chance\nto yell at me, I'm going to go in here",
"start": 521.562,
"duration": 3.208
},
{
"text": "and preemptively add ctype.h.",
"start": 524.77,
"duration": 3.056
},
{
"text": "Which recall is a library\nyou might have seen",
"start": 527.826,
"duration": 1.874
},
{
"text": "or certainly will soon see that\nhas a number of functions in it.",
"start": 529.7,
"duration": 3.34
},
{
"text": "Among them, two upper.",
"start": 533.04,
"duration": 1.18
},
{
"text": "And then, I also need to include\nstring.h, so that I can use strlen--",
"start": 534.22,
"duration": 4.094
},
{
"text": "the function that gives me\nthe length of the string.",
"start": 538.314,
"duration": 2.166
},
{
"text": "So Clang would have yelled at me if I\nforgot that, but let me preemptively",
"start": 540.48,
"duration": 2.89
},
{
"text": "solve that problem.",
"start": 543.37,
"duration": 0.82
},
{
"text": "And now, do make copies zero.",
"start": 544.19,
"duration": 2.35
},
{
"text": "All seems to be well.",
"start": 546.54,
"duration": 1.03
},
{
"text": "Let's run dot slash copy 0.",
"start": 547.57,
"duration": 1.861
},
{
"text": "All right.",
"start": 549.431,
"duration": 0.499
},
{
"text": "Let's go ahead and type in-- how about\njust my own name in all lowercase.",
"start": 549.93,
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"text": "Now, why is this confusing?",
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"text": "So I wrote code that got a string\nfrom the user and stored it in s.",
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"text": "I then wrote code that\ndeclared a second variable, t.",
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"text": "think a copy-- as in past weeks\nof using the assignment operator.",
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"text": "Then down here, I made\nsure t was long enough.",
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"text": "And then on this line\nhere, I'm just saying,",
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"text": "the first character of t.",
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"text": "So the only code that's\ntouching t is this one here.",
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"text": "And yet, somehow my name gets\ncapitalized both in s and in t.",
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"text": "So what is it that's\nactually going on here?",
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"text": "It seems to be broken still.",
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"text": "In fact, let me go ahead and open\nanother example, rather than type",
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"text": "I have a prototype of my function\ncalled swap up here, because indeed,",
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"text": "All right.",
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"text": "This isn't necessarily\nindicative of a misunderstanding.",
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"text": "And yet, this is a good\nopportunity for one more tool.",
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"text": "And you know what?",
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"text": "I'm going to set a break point right at\nthe beginning of this program on line",
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"text": "10 by simply clicking in the so-called\ngutter of the line number here.",
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"text": "Notice that x has a value\nof 1 and y has a value of 2.",
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"text": "And that's what I intend.",
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"text": "Now, let's step over that and we\nsee indeed swapping dot dot dot.",
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"text": "But rather than step over my call to\nthe swap function, let's step into it.",
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"text": "And notice that debug 50 immediately\njumps down to the first line and swap.",
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"text": "And notice now on the right\nhand side, what's going on?",
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"text": "a is 1 and b is 2.",
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"text": "And that's as expected,\nbecause I passed an x and y.",
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"text": "And where is that value coming?",
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"text": "And we'll see why this is in just a bit.",
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"text": "So this is anomalous.",
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"text": "And we'll see in just a moment\nwhat it is that's going on.",
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"text": "And indeed, that's the key insight.",
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"text": "But the catch is the moment\nthat swap returns, this happens.",
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"text": "Well, what does that actually mean?",
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"text": "And so forth.",
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"text": "And so over here, this number 123 is\ngenerally called, not just a number,",
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"text": "can my program later on find Zamyla's\nname and do something with it.",
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"text": "Like printed out, or capitalize it,\nor compare it, or anything else.",
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"text": "And so, how though\ndoes the computer know",
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"text": "Well, it begins at 123.",
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"text": "And again, recall from two weeks\nago, it ends with backslash 0.",
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"text": "So with those two markers,\nwhere does it begin?",
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"text": "Where does it end?",
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"text": "Can you infer the\nentirety of someone's name",
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"text": "or the entirety of a string in between?",
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"text": "Now, consider my second line of code.",
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"text": "String t gets get string.",
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"text": "So what does this mean?",
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"text": "This is another function call.",
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"text": "And suppose that I just happen to type\nin Z-A-M-Y-L-A enter, just like before.",
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"text": "What's happening there is that the\ncomputer, blind to the fact that,",
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"text": "is going to give me another chunk of\nmemory somewhere with Z-A-M-Y-L-A.",
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"text": "And I don't know where it is.",
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"text": "Maybe it's at address number\n234, followed by 235 dot dot dot.",
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"text": "But the key detail here is that t in\nso far is it is a variable itself.",
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"text": "It gets what value?",
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"text": "Capitalization meanwhile.",
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"text": "What happens with that other program?",
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"text": "Well, we'll do this one more quickly.",
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"text": "Maybe starting again at address 123.",
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"text": "And recall from my example earlier when\nI typed it in all lowercase, David,",
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"text": "In other words-- and frankly, it\ndoesn't really matter, typically,",
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"text": "what these addresses are.",
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"text": "I'm just using 123 and 234 because\nthey're sort of easy to say.",
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"text": "And t, similarly, can be\nthought of as a pointer.",
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"text": "And the key detail here is that\nbecause I've set s equal to t-- or t",
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"text": "equal to s-- they are effectively\npointing at the same thing.",
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"text": "So strings are a lie.",
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"text": "There is no such thing\nas a string data type.",
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"text": "that can live somewhere in memory.",
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"text": "And we humans can\narbitrarily decide that hey,",
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"text": "if we put a backslash 0 character at the\nend of a sequence of other characters,",
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"text": "But we need a convention for\nremembering where strings begin.",
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"text": "We've already solved the\nwhere do they end problem.",
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"text": "So where does the string begin?",
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"text": "It begins at an address.",
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"text": "It begins with a pointer.",
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"text": "And so this special data type\nthat we declare in CS50's library",
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"text": "called string really is just\nin CS50 IDE an 8-byte value,",
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"text": "to lots of memory, certainly\nnumbers bigger than 123.",
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"text": "But a string is just a number, is\njust an address, AKA a pointer.",
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"text": "And that explains, then, why\nall three of these examples",
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"text": "did not behave as I might\nhave hoped, because rather",
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"text": "they were taking things\na little too literally.",
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"text": "Or I was failing to appreciate\nwhat's actually going on.",
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"text": "Let's pause for a moment,\ntake things down a notch.",
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"text": "Make things a little more\nreal with a bit of claymation",
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"text": "that will motivate, eventually,\npeeling back this layer further",
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"text": "and seeing what's really going on.",
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"text": "[STRUMMED CHORD]",
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"text": "NICK PARLANTE: Hey, Binky.",
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"text": "Wake up.",
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"text": "It's time for pointer fun.",
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"text": "BINKY: What's that?",
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"duration": 1.21
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"text": "Learn about pointers?",
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"text": "Oh, goodie!",
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"text": "DAVID J. MALAN: Binky, who exist\nhere only in claymation form,",
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"text": "is the product of a good friend of\nours, Nick Parlante at Stanford,",
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"text": "who teaches computer science there.",
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"duration": 1.458
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"text": "You'll see more of Binky and hear\nmore of Nick in just a moment.",
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"text": "But these here are\nsort of metaphorically",
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"text": "the training wheels that we've\nhad on for the past few weeks.",
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"text": "And the goal now at hand\nis to take these off,",
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"text": "and to finally start looking at what's\nreally going on underneath the hood.",
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"text": "And starting to remove,\nif you will, let's",
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"text": "see if-- [BANG] --probably\nnot the best idea.",
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"text": "Remove, if you will,\nthese training wheels,",
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"text": "and actually see what's\ngoing on, and understand",
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"text": "and take advantage of the same.",
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"text": "As follows.",
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"text": "Let's go ahead now into CS50\nIDE, and go ahead and open up,",
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"text": "let's say, compare1.c, which I\nwrote in advance to look as follows.",
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"text": "And you'll notice that it works a\nlittle differently from version zero.",
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"text": "Here we have a prompt for string s.",
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"text": "And we store in it the\nreturn value of get string.",
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"text": "But notice what's on the left-hand side.",
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"text": "Char star s, all of a sudden.",
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"text": "Indeed, all of this time,\nI've been treating things",
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"text": "as though they are strings, literally.",
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"text": "But it turns out a\nstring is just a synonym",
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"text": "for a data type known as a char star.",
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"text": "And the new syntax today,\nthen, is this star operator.",
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"text": "The asterisk that actually has special\nmeaning in certain contexts, not just",
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"text": "multiplication.",
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"text": "But in this case, it specifies\nthat the type of a variable",
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"text": "is not a char literally,\nbut a char star, the address",
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"text": "of a char, a pointer to a char.",
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"text": "Now, why char?",
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"text": "I thought we were talking about strings.",
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"text": "But again, recall that a string\nis just a sequence of characters",
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"text": "back to back to back, and\ntherefore, you can define a string",
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"text": "by the address of its first character.",
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"text": "Ergo, what we really\nneed underneath the hood",
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"text": "is a data type that lets us\nstore the address of a character.",
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"text": "There is no string.",
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"text": "And so what does this allow us to do?",
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"text": "Let me go into CS50 IDE, and let\nme declare then, on this line",
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"text": "here, that s, this time, will\nnot be a \"string\" quote unquote.",
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"text": "That was from the CS50 library.",
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"text": "But rather it's going to be a char star.",
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"text": "It turns out that all this time\nget string, again, does not",
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"text": "the address of the first\ncharacter in a string.",
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"text": "And so the type of value it's\nreturning is not just a number.",
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"text": "It's not just an int.",
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"text": "So this, then, is identical to my\npreviously in weeks past having typed",
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"text": "if your computer is out of memory,\nor something else goes wrong.",
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"text": "Or not so much\naccidentally, but by design.",
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"text": "But notice this new chunk of code.",
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"text": "It turns out-- and we\nknow now from a moment",
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"text": "We need a special function that actually\ncompares strings in a conceptual way.",
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"text": "Thankfully, there exists in C a function\nthat does exactly that called strcomp,",
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"text": "The second is a string.",
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"text": "Or more properly, the first\nis the address of a string.",
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"text": "The second is the\naddress of a character.",
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"text": "don't loop forever through memory.",
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"text": "They eventually hit that\nspecial null terminating byte.",
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"text": "And if so, and those characters are\nall entirely equal, you print same.",
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"text": "So now, when I compile this\nprogram, make compare 1,",
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"text": "and then I do ./compare1.",
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"text": "Now I'll type in david in all\nlowercase, david in all lowercase.",
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"text": "They're indeed the same.",
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"text": "Let's do it again.",
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"text": "Different.",
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"text": "And then FUBAR, clearly different.",
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"text": "Now we're actually comparing\nthese things properly.",
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"text": "Because now we're appreciating what\nit actually means to be a string,",
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"text": "and we are underneath the hood\ncomparing what we should be doing.",
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"text": "Now, underneath the hood,\nwhat is str compare doing?",
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"text": "Honestly, it's probably just\na while loop or a for loop",
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"text": "that is iterating over the\nstring and their lengths",
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"text": "and making sure they're\nall in fact equal.",
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"text": "Let's go ahead and fix\ncopy with version 1 here.",
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"text": "Copy 1.c that I've written in\nadvance now looks like this.",
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"text": "I still prompt the user for a\nstring s with these lines here.",
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"text": "I then, just to be safe, say\nhey, wait a minute, if s equals",
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"text": "equals null, return 1.",
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"text": "And again, 1 is just arbitrary.",
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"text": "I just want to get out, lest\nI break something later.",
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"text": "Now, down here, this\nis a new line of code.",
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"text": "And this is perhaps one of\nthe most powerful ingredients",
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"text": "we'll see this week, is this\nnew function called malloc,",
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"text": "memory allocate.",
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"text": "This is a special function via which\nyou can ask the operating system, Linux",
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"duration": 5.05
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"text": "in the case here, or Mac OS, or Windows,\nif you're running the code locally,",
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"text": "hey operating system, please give\nme a bunch of bytes of memory.",
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"duration": 5.22
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"text": "Now, why do I want this?",
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"text": "This program is copy 1.c.",
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"text": "The goal at hand is to create a\nprogram that copies a string s",
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"text": "and stores the copy in t, so to speak.",
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"duration": 2.47
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"text": "Last time, it was not sufficient\njust to say t equals s,",
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"text": "because that copied the addresses.",
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"text": "That didn't give me a copy of\nZ-A-M-Y-- Z-A-M-Y-L-A backlash 0.",
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"duration": 7.31
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"text": "It instead just gave me\na copy of the address.",
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"text": "So how do I get a complete\ncopy of Zamyla's name?",
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"text": "I need to preemptively do\na little bit of arithmetic",
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"text": "and say, all right, how\nlong is Zamyla's name?",
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"text": "Well, it's the length\nof s, str len of s.",
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"text": "But plus one.",
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"text": "Why plus one?",
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"text": "Why plus one?",
"start": 2287.181,
"duration": 1.409
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{
"text": "Yeah?",
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"duration": 2.05
},
{
"text": "Exactly.",
"start": 2290.64,
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{
"text": "We now were hit the lowest\nlevel of the computer.",
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"text": "If we don't ask the operating system for\nmemory for that extra backslash 0 byte,",
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"text": "we're not going to get it.",
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"text": "So we have to explicitly\nsay, give me one more byte,",
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"text": "because I know how strings are\nimplemented underneath the hood.",
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"text": "I need to put that backslash\nzero there, ultimately,",
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"text": "and then whatever that expression is,\nthe length of Zamyla, so Z-A-M-Y-L-A,",
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"text": "six, plus one, seven bytes.",
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"text": "i, each of the characters in my\nloop, what's actually happening?",
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"text": "Well, fairly intuitively, this lower\ncase d ends up getting copied here.",
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"text": "This lower case a ends\nup getting copied here.",
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"text": "V-I-D, on through.",
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"text": "And David can't count,\nso-- backslash-- oh, right.",
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"text": "But we have taken the\ncomputer more literally now.",
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"text": "Give me six bytes, not\nseven bytes, in this case.",
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"text": "which looks like that now.",
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"text": "And that's what's going\non underneath the hood.",
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"text": "So this is why, then, in\nthe beginning of the class,",
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"text": "because you very quickly get\ncaught up in a lot of this minutia.",
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"text": "This is very powerful,\nbecause now you have",
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"text": "For instance, we can go back\nand solve one other problem",
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"text": "we saw a moment ago, which was swap.",
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"text": "So this version of swap was broken why?",
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"text": "What was the source of\nthis fundamental problem?",
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"text": "Yeah?",
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"text": "STUDENT: [INAUDIBLE]",
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"text": "DAVID J. MALAN: Yeah.",
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"text": "When you went back to main, you\nerased the memory on top of it,",
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"text": "and the fundamental problem there\nwas when I passed in x and y,",
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"text": "they became copies called a and\nb, in different chunks of memory.",
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"text": "And so the fundamental\nproblem seems to be",
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"text": "that swap is incorrectly implemented.",
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"text": "It's logically correct.",
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"text": "It does swap two values.",
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"text": "And we saw that with debug 50, but it's\nkind of fundamentally flawed in so far",
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"text": "as it requires, it\nseems, by design of C,",
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"text": "that a and b be passed in by\nvalue as copies, so to speak.",
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"text": "We need some way to change this function\nto say main, hey, uh-uh, don't give me",
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"text": "copies of your variables.",
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"text": "Give me a treasure map that\nwill lead me to your variables.",
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"text": "Give me the address of x.",
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"text": "Give me the address of y.",
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"text": "And I'll still call them a\nand b, or whatever I want,",
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"text": "but lead me to the original values.",
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"text": "Don't just pass me\ncopies of those values.",
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"text": "And so we can change swap as follows\nfrom a program or a function that's",
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"text": "incorrect entirely, but\ninto one that is correct.",
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"text": "And we need to change\nthe syntax a little bit.",
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"text": "So before is what we had here.",
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"text": "So if you see it in\nrapid succession there,",
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"text": "all you see is that a whole bunch\nof stars are appearing in the code.",
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"text": "And unfortunately, C was not\ndesigned in the best of ways",
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"text": "to make clear what star\nmeans in different contexts,",
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"text": "but it's all related as follows.",
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"text": "The fact that I have now\nchanged a and b to be not ints,",
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"text": "but ints stars, int pointers, if you\nwill, means that when main calls swap,",
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"text": "it is by design of the C language,\ngoing to pass in the address of x",
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"text": "So that's what the star means.",
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"text": "Go to the address that is in a.",
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"text": "That happens to be the address\nof the CS building at Harvard.",
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"text": "So what does that mean, then, down\nhere, when I say star a gets star b?",
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"text": "So we can now fix our\nswap program correctly.",
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"text": "We can now open up, as I will here,\nswap dot c, which I wrote in advance.",
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"text": "What is that?",
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"text": "What line needs to change?",
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"text": "Well who cares about swap?",
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"text": "It's main that was calling\nthis thing in the first place,",
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"text": "so let's go back to the original story.",
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"text": "But notice this line has to change.",
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"text": "So one more piece of syntax today.",
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"text": "can go there.",
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"text": "So what does this mean\nin pictorial form?",
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"text": "And inside of main was two variables,\nlike x, and another variable y.",
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"text": "But what goes in there now?",
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"text": "It's not 1 and 2.",
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"text": "We need to know a little something\nmore about my computer's memory.",
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"text": "And I don't know where\neverything's laid out,",
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"text": "it's inside of my computer's memory.",
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"text": "Maybe this is byte number 90.",
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"text": "This is going to be 91.",
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"text": "This here is going to be 92,\n93, 94, 95, and so forth.",
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"text": "I just need to know that there's\nsome kind of numbering scheme there.",
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"text": "And not the values 1 and 2, but rather\nthe addresses of those values 1 and 2.",
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"text": "Because now my code for the swap\nfunction, consider what it does.",
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"text": "Store the value in temp\nat the address in b.",
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"text": "It's just an integer,\nbut what does it store?",
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"text": "Well, according to my\ncode, temp gets the value",
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"text": "of going to a, going\nto the address in a.",
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"text": "So what is a?",
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"text": "a is 99.",
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"text": "That's like a treasure map leading\nto, OK, this chunk of memory",
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"text": "down here in my computer.",
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"text": "And what value is there\nonce I've gone there?",
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"text": "Once I've gone to the CS building\ninside of it, I see the number 1,",
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"text": "and grab its value, and put\nit at the address that's in a.",
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"text": "So what does that mean?",
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"text": "Well, star b means\nstart here and go to 92.",
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"text": "So it's like an arrow-- kind\nof like chutes and ladders,",
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"text": "if you know the game--\nlike go to address 92.",
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"text": "What value is there?",
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"text": "The number 2.",
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"text": "And the other half of the\nequation, on the left,",
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"text": "and copy the 2 into that location.",
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"text": "is this, get the value in temp-- that's\neasy-- and put it at the address in b.",
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"text": "So to do that, here's\ntemp, it's the number 1.",
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"text": "I have to go to the address in b.",
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"text": "The address and b is 92.",
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"text": "So let's go there, and\naha, let me go ahead then,",
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"text": "and overwrite the value that's\nthere with the number 1.",
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"text": "So now this frame of\nmemory on the stack--",
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"text": "the 91, the 92, and the\ntemporary variable--",
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"text": "they are, by design of my\nnew function, disposable.",
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"text": "All I care about is that\nx and y continue to exist.",
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"text": "actually having a permanent\nimpact on my data?",
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"text": "And with the frame, the\nmemory still looks like that,",
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"text": "because it's gone to the address in a.",
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"text": "Gone to the address in b, which\nleads it to the original x and y.",
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"text": "And so by way of pointers,\nby way of these addresses,",
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"text": "do we have the ability to actually\ngo much, much deeper into a program",
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"text": "to be able to, here.",
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"text": "And when it does, it really is that\nproverbial light bulb that goes off.",
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"text": "And for me, that light bulb\nwent off right then and there.",
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"text": "Now, what more can we do with these\nthings, after that motivational speech?",
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"text": "Pointer arithmetic.",
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"text": "And it allows us now\nto do things like this.",
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"text": "Let me go ahead and open up one other\nprogram that I wrote in advance here,",
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"text": "called pointers dot c.",
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"text": "And take a look at what\nthis thing does here.",
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"text": "It works a little differently\nfrom the syntax we're used to,",
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"text": "and from any of our\ncrypto problems thus far.",
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"text": "If so, just return.",
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"text": "Something went wrong, so\nlet's not deal with it now.",
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"text": "For i gets 0 all the way up to n.",
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"text": "we quite simply, as I recall, did this.",
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"text": "Which was nice and intuitive, right?",
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"text": "as it's called.",
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"text": "Any time a language has a\nfeature that's convenient to use,",
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"text": "But there is no string.",
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"text": "The first in a string.",
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"text": "What do you find when you get there?",
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"text": "A character, because s is a char\nstar, the address of a character.",
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"text": "And so printing out %c\n*s effectively means,",
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"text": "On the second iteration of\nthe loop, i is, of course, 1.",
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"text": "One more iteration, i is now 2.",
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"text": "s plus 2 is 2 bytes away\nfrom the start of the string.",
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"text": "And so forth.",
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"text": "And do this up until the\nlength of the string.",
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"text": "Now this is perfectly correct.",
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"text": "And if you really kind of want\nto look cool with your code",
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"text": "you can use pointer arithmetic\nin this way, because all it is",
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"text": "is just expressing more precisely\nwhat is going on underneath the hood.",
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"text": "But it's a little more cryptic.",
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"text": "It's certainly a couple more characters.",
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"text": "But it is functionally\nequivalent to what",
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"text": "we've been doing for weeks, which\nhas been, again, just s [i].",
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"text": "So whereas some of today's\nideas are admittedly",
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"text": "So this is pointer arithmetic,\nso to speak, insofar",
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"text": "Math with pointers.",
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"text": "All right, let's take a look now\nat where things can go wrong.",
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"text": "So this is a program written by our\nfriend Nick Parlante at Stanford,",
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"text": "inspired by Binky, who will\nreturn in just a moment.",
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"text": "And it's fundamentally broken.",
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"text": "This code is incorrect.",
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"text": "It also doesn't really\ndo anything useful.",
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"text": "But it's meant to be demonstrative\nof things that can go wrong.",
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"text": "So at the top of this program, notice\nwe are declaring two variables, x and y.",
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"text": "But today those variables are not ints,\nas they might have been in weeks past,",
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"text": "they are int*s, the addresses ints.",
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"text": "They're not being initialized\nyet to any value, so that's fine.",
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"text": "looks like this.",
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"text": "I have no idea what's inside of them.",
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"text": "the computer is not\ngoing to do it for us,",
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"text": "so they might just have remnants\nof some past usage of that memory.",
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"text": "Now this is kind of a silly use.",
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"text": "We've seen for weeks\nnow how you get an int.",
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"text": "That's all malloc is doing, and\nit's storing that address in x.",
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"text": "For good measure I should check for\nnull, but we're not, in this case,",
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"text": "per Binky.",
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"text": "So what's the next line do?",
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"text": "This next line means go to the address\nin x and put the number 42 there.",
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"text": "That seems OK.",
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"text": "we can go there and put the number 42\nin binary, in 4 bytes worth of bits.",
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"text": "But what about this line?",
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"text": "I've flagged it in red\nbecause this program probably",
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"text": "is going to go no further.",
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{
"text": "In fact, something very,\nvery bad is about to happen.",
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"text": "Why?",
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"text": "Well, what is the value in y?",
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"text": "Well, originally x was a garbage\nvalue until I called malloc",
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"text": "and asked malloc, hey, malloc,\ngive me enough space for an int.",
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"text": "So I'll draw it as a box here.",
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"text": "Give me the address of\nthat chunk of memory.",
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"text": "So this question mark is really now\nan arrow to that chunk of memory.",
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"text": "And then I said, hey, computer, go\nahead and go there and put the value 42.",
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"text": "and put the unlucky number 13 there.",
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"text": "And so something very\nbad is going to happen.",
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"text": "It's some garbage value, which\nmeans if I just go there,",
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"text": "who knows where I'm going to end up?",
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"text": "But odds are I'm going\nto end up somewhere",
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"text": "I shouldn't, because I should not be\ntouching memory that is not my own.",
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"text": "And indeed, thanks to Binky, we're about\nto see that bad things indeed happen",
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"text": "when you touch memory\nthat you shouldn't.",
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"text": "Let's take a look.",
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"text": "[VIDEO PLAYBACK]",
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{
"text": "-Hey, Binky, wake up.",
"start": 3797.236,
"duration": 2.144
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{
"text": "It's time for pointer fun.",
"start": 3799.38,
"duration": 2.016
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{
"text": "-What's that?",
"start": 3801.396,
"duration": 1.694
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{
"text": "Learn about pointers?",
"start": 3803.09,
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"text": "Oh, goody!",
"start": 3804.67,
"duration": 1.77
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{
"text": "-Well, to get started, I guess we're\ngoing to need a couple pointers.",
"start": 3806.44,
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"text": "-OK.",
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"text": "This code allocates two pointers\nwhich can point to integers.",
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"text": "-OK, well, I see the\ntwo pointers, but they",
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"text": "don't seem to be pointing to anything.",
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"duration": 1.583
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{
"text": "-That's right.",
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"text": "Initially, pointers\ndon't point to anything.",
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"text": "The things they point to are called\npointees, and setting them up's",
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"text": "a separate step.",
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"text": "-Oh, right, right, I knew that.",
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"text": "The pointees are separate.",
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"text": "Er, so how do you allocate a pointee?",
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"text": "-OK, well, this code allocates\na new integer pointee,",
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"text": "and this part sets x to point to it.",
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"text": "-Hey, that looks better.",
"start": 3837.95,
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"text": "So make it do something.",
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"text": "-OK, I'll dereference the pointer x to\nstore the number 42 into its pointee.",
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"text": "For this trick I'll need my\nmagic wand of dereferencing.",
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"text": "-Your magic wand of dereferencing?",
"start": 3850.03,
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{
"text": "Uh, that's great.",
"start": 3852.8,
"duration": 2.38
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"text": "-This is what the code looks like.",
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"text": "I'll just set up the number and--",
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"text": "[POP]",
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{
"text": "-Hey, look, there it goes.",
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"text": "So doing a dereference on x follows\nthe arrow to access its pointee.",
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"text": "In this case, to store 42 in there.",
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"text": "Hey, try using it to store the number\n13 through the other pointer, y.",
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"text": "-OK, I'll just go over here to\ny and get the number 13 set up,",
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"text": "and then take the wand of\ndereferencing and just--",
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"text": "[BUZZER]",
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"text": "Oh!",
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"text": "-Oh, hey, that didn't work.",
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"text": "Say, Binky, I don't think the\ndereferencing y is a good idea,",
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"text": "because, you know, setting up\nthe pointee is a separate step,",
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"text": "and I don't think we ever did it.",
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"text": "-Oh, good point.",
"start": 3895.61,
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"text": "-Yeah, we allocated the pointer y, but\nwe never set it to point to a pointee.",
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"text": "-Hm, very observant.",
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"text": "-Hey, you're looking good there, Binky.",
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"text": "Can you fix it so that y points\nto the same pointee as x?",
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{
"text": "-Sure.",
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"text": "I'll use my magic wand\nof pointer assignment.",
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"text": "-Is that going to be a\nproblem, like before?",
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"text": "-No, this doesn't touch the pointees.",
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"text": "It just changes one pointer to\npoint to the same thing as another.",
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"text": "-Oh, I see.",
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"text": "Now y points to the same place as x.",
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"text": "So wait, now y is fixed.",
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"text": "to send the 13 over.",
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"text": "-Oh, OK, here goes,",
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"text": "-Hey, look at that.",
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"text": "Now dereferencing works on y.",
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"text": "And because the pointers are sharing\nthat one pointee, they both see the 13.",
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"text": "-Yeah, sharing, whatever.",
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"text": "So are we going to switch places now?",
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"text": "-Oh look, we're out of time.",
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"text": "Bye bye, now.",
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"text": "[END PLAYBACK]",
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"text": "DAVID J. MALAN: So what\nelse can go wrong now",
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"text": "that we have the ability\nto touch, correctly",
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"text": "or incorrectly, any\nmemory that we actually",
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"text": "have access to inside of our program?",
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"text": "Well, memory leaks are one such problem.",
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"duration": 2.31
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"text": "Now that you have the capability to\nask the operating system for memory",
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"duration": 3.84
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"text": "via the malloc function, you\nhave the ability to accidentally",
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"text": "not give that memory back.",
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"duration": 1.72
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"text": "In fact, a very common mistake\nin some programming languages",
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"text": "use it, and then never actually free it.",
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"text": "To give it back so that\nother parts of your program,",
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"text": "or other programs on the computer,\ncan actually make use of that memory.",
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"text": "But fortunately there exist tools\nvia which we can detect this,",
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"text": "and one of them is called Valgrind.",
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"text": "allocating memory in your program.",
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"text": "So up until now you probably\nhave not used malloc,",
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"text": "and therefore you have\nnot likely actually asked",
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"text": "the operating system for more\nmemory in this very dynamic way.",
"start": 4039.61,
"duration": 3.25
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"text": "Instead, you have just declared\nan integer or an array,",
"start": 4042.86,
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"text": "and asked the computer for memory\nin other ways, not using malloc.",
"start": 4046.22,
"duration": 4.52
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"text": "But suppose that we have\na program like this.",
"start": 4050.74,
"duration": 2.26
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{
"text": "In memory dot c I've made some mistakes.",
"start": 4053.0,
"duration": 3.72
},
{
"text": "Deliberately, but mistakes nonetheless.",
"start": 4056.72,
"duration": 3.614
},
{
"text": "And indeed, this draws inspiration from\nthe documentation for this very tool",
"start": 4060.334,
"duration": 3.166
},
{
"text": "to highlight a couple of\nits most useful features.",
"start": 4063.5,
"duration": 2.46
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"text": "So let's look at this program here.",
"start": 4065.96,
"duration": 1.52
},
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"text": "There's no prototype\nfor this function f,",
"start": 4067.48,
"duration": 1.77
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"text": "just because the example that Valgrind,\nthis tool, gives just puts it up top,",
"start": 4069.25,
"duration": 3.4
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{
"text": "and that's fine.",
"start": 4072.65,
"duration": 0.91
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"text": "But let's focus on main first.",
"start": 4073.56,
"duration": 1.69
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"text": "Main takes no command line\narguments, per it's mention of void,",
"start": 4075.25,
"duration": 2.88
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"text": "and it returns an int as usual.",
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"duration": 1.98
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"text": "The function f gets called here.",
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"duration": 2.44
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"text": "So f open bracket, close bracket\njust means call the function f,",
"start": 4082.55,
"duration": 3.38
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"text": "but pass it no inputs, and\nthen eventually return 0.",
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"duration": 3.06
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{
"text": "So let's look at f.",
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"duration": 0.82
},
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"text": "What happens?",
"start": 4089.81,
"duration": 1.06
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{
"text": "Well, f takes no inputs,\nproduces no outputs.",
"start": 4090.87,
"duration": 3.05
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{
"text": "It only apparently has\nthese two lines of code.",
"start": 4093.92,
"duration": 2.547
},
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"text": "And let's consider what it does.",
"start": 4096.467,
"duration": 1.333
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"text": "It calls malloc, memory allocate,\n10 times the size of int.",
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"duration": 4.33
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{
"text": "So that just means, hey, malloc,\ngive me enough space for 10 integers.",
"start": 4102.13,
"duration": 4.599
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"text": "Now we know on CS50 IDE that the size\nof an int recall is 4 bytes, or 32 bits.",
"start": 4106.729,
"duration": 5.25
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"text": "So this is like saying, hey,\ncomputer, give me 40 bytes total.",
"start": 4111.979,
"duration": 4.891
},
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"text": "4 times 10.",
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"duration": 1.26
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"text": "Malloc recall returns the\naddress of that chunk of memory,",
"start": 4118.13,
"duration": 3.349
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"text": "and it stores it in x, which, according\nto the star, is the address of an int.",
"start": 4121.479,
"duration": 4.09
},
{
"text": "So that's all.",
"start": 4125.569,
"duration": 0.811
},
{
"text": "So borrowing some of the same\nideas from the Binky example.",
"start": 4126.38,
"duration": 2.75
},
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"text": "What is bad about this\nis this next line.",
"start": 4129.13,
"duration": 4.59
},
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"text": "Why is x[10]=0 a problem?",
"start": 4133.72,
"duration": 4.522
},
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"text": "Well, the size of this chunk of\nmemory is what, 10 ints worth.",
"start": 4138.242,
"duration": 3.848
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{
"text": "So 10 times 4, 40 bytes.",
"start": 4142.09,
"duration": 1.84
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"text": "But remember how chunks\nof memory are indexed",
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"duration": 3.369
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"text": "when you use square bracket notation.",
"start": 4147.299,
"duration": 1.541
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"text": "When you use square bracket\nnotation, you better",
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"duration": 2.0
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"text": "start counting at 0, which means\nif we have 10 ints, first one is 0,",
"start": 4150.84,
"duration": 4.0
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"text": "the last one is 9, the\n10th one does not exist.",
"start": 4154.84,
"duration": 4.33
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"text": "And so if I'm saying\nxx[10] gets any value,",
"start": 4159.17,
"duration": 3.149
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"text": "that's like saying go there\nand put the value 0 there,",
"start": 4162.319,
"duration": 3.281
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"text": "but I don't have access\nto that chunk of memory.",
"start": 4165.6,
"duration": 2.429
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{
"text": "I did not ask the\ncomputer for that memory.",
"start": 4168.029,
"duration": 2.361
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{
"text": "I asked the computer for all of this\nother memory, only 10 of these bytes.",
"start": 4170.39,
"duration": 4.639
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{
"text": "So this feels problematic.",
"start": 4175.029,
"duration": 1.551
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"text": "Moreover, I have asked the operating\nsystem for memory via malloc,",
"start": 4176.58,
"duration": 3.699
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{
"text": "hey, give me 40 bytes.",
"start": 4180.279,
"duration": 1.33
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{
"text": "I never handed it back.",
"start": 4181.609,
"duration": 2.091
},
{
"text": "Thereby introducing what we\nwould call a memory leak.",
"start": 4183.7,
"duration": 4.22
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{
"text": "Now, as an aside, once your program\nquits, all of the memory it's allocated",
"start": 4187.92,
"duration": 3.63
},
{
"text": "is actually automatically\ngiven back, but the problem is",
"start": 4191.55,
"duration": 2.72
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"text": "that, for long running programs,\nthings like your browsers,",
"start": 4194.27,
"duration": 2.54
},
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"text": "or word processing\nprograms, or any number--",
"start": 4196.81,
"duration": 2.521
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"text": "Skype-- or any number of other\nprograms that you might run locally",
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"duration": 2.749
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"text": "on your Mac or PC, if those bigger\nprograms have memory leaks, such",
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"duration": 3.94
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"text": "that they keep asking Mac\nOS or Windows for memory",
"start": 4206.02,
"duration": 2.66
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"text": "and never actually\nremember to give it back,",
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"duration": 2.71
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"text": "you might experience what you might\nhave in the past of your Mac or PC",
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"duration": 4.17
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{
"text": "really starting to slow\ndown and kind of crawl.",
"start": 4215.56,
"duration": 4.14
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"text": "And that can be for any number\nof reasons, but one of them",
"start": 4219.7,
"duration": 2.98
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{
"text": "is if your program or programs inside\nof them have some form of memory leak.",
"start": 4222.68,
"duration": 4.21
},
{
"text": "Not your fault. It's the programmer's\nfault. But memory leaks, nonetheless.",
"start": 4226.89,
"duration": 4.36
},
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"text": "So what is Valgrind good for here?",
"start": 4231.25,
"duration": 2.64
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{
"text": "Well, it turns out, that in Valgrind\nyou can run the command like here.",
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"duration": 5.04
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{
"text": "Valgrind.",
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"duration": 0.74
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{
"text": "Leak check equals full.",
"start": 4239.67,
"duration": 1.71
},
{
"text": "Dot slash.",
"start": 4241.38,
"duration": 0.584
},
{
"text": "And then the name of your program.",
"start": 4241.964,
"duration": 1.416
},
{
"text": "And so let me do that.",
"start": 4243.38,
"duration": 1.05
},
{
"text": "Let me go ahead back into CS50 IDE\nand let me go ahead and make memory.",
"start": 4244.43,
"duration": 5.31
},
{
"text": "Compiles OK, so it doesn't appear\nto be syntactically flawed.",
"start": 4249.74,
"duration": 2.74
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{
"text": "Dot slash memory.",
"start": 4252.48,
"duration": 2.09
},
{
"text": "Nothing bad seems to happen.",
"start": 4254.57,
"duration": 1.63
},
{
"text": "So that's all fine and good.",
"start": 4256.2,
"duration": 1.57
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"text": "And you might think that, OK my\nprogram works, it's time to submit,",
"start": 4257.77,
"duration": 4.19
},
{
"text": "all is well, but not necessarily.",
"start": 4261.96,
"duration": 2.27
},
{
"text": "Let me go ahead and run Valgrind.",
"start": 4264.23,
"duration": 2.19
},
{
"text": "And let me actually go\nahead-- let me go up here",
"start": 4266.42,
"duration": 2.314
},
{
"text": "and not create a new\nfile, but a new terminal.",
"start": 4268.734,
"duration": 1.916
},
{
"text": "Just so that we have\na much bigger window.",
"start": 4270.65,
"duration": 1.75
},
{
"text": "And let me go ahead into this directory\nand run Valgrind, dot slash memory.",
"start": 4272.4,
"duration": 4.94
},
{
"text": "Without any command line\narguments besides that.",
"start": 4277.34,
"duration": 2.65
},
{
"text": "And hit Enter.",
"start": 4279.99,
"duration": 0.91
},
{
"text": "And the downside of\nValgrind, frankly, is",
"start": 4280.9,
"duration": 2.36
},
{
"text": "that it's just-- output is atrocious.",
"start": 4283.26,
"duration": 1.9
},
{
"text": "Like it's just not easy to read.",
"start": 4285.16,
"duration": 1.68
},
{
"text": "But you start to learn\nto notice patterns in it.",
"start": 4286.84,
"duration": 2.45
},
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"text": "So I've learned to notice when I make\nmistakes in programs that invalid right",
"start": 4289.29,
"duration": 3.92
},
{
"text": "of size 4, not a good thing.",
"start": 4293.21,
"duration": 1.74
},
{
"text": "That's indeed a problem of some sort.",
"start": 4294.95,
"duration": 2.12
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"text": "But what's nice about\nValgrind is that it tells me",
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"duration": 2.83
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"text": "that the source of this invalid\nright, whatever that means,",
"start": 4299.9,
"duration": 3.54
},
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"text": "starts in memory.c line 13 and really\nrears its head in line 8 of memory.c.",
"start": 4303.44,
"duration": 7.92
},
{
"text": "Well, what are those lines?",
"start": 4311.36,
"duration": 1.19
},
{
"text": "Let's go to line 13.",
"start": 4312.55,
"duration": 2.12
},
{
"text": "Ah, that's my call to F. And line 8.",
"start": 4314.67,
"duration": 2.6
},
{
"text": "Oh, that's my use of x bracket 10.",
"start": 4317.27,
"duration": 3.79
},
{
"text": "So why is Valgrind telling\nme invalid right of size 4?",
"start": 4321.06,
"duration": 3.89
},
{
"text": "Well, size 4 sounds familiar.",
"start": 4324.95,
"duration": 1.32
},
{
"text": "That's the size of an int.",
"start": 4326.27,
"duration": 1.71
},
{
"text": "Invalid just means bad.",
"start": 4327.98,
"duration": 1.53
},
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"text": "Right means change something,\nlike mutate a value.",
"start": 4329.51,
"duration": 3.36
},
{
"text": "So invalid right of size\n4 maybe just means this.",
"start": 4332.87,
"duration": 4.38
},
{
"text": "I am in an invalid way\nchanging 4 bytes of memory",
"start": 4337.25,
"duration": 4.45
},
{
"text": "by storing 0 from the right hand side\ninto x bracket 10 on the left hand",
"start": 4341.7,
"duration": 4.29
},
{
"text": "side because, again, that x\nbracket 10 is an 11th byte, rather,",
"start": 4345.99,
"duration": 5.26
},
{
"text": "an 11th int, that I never\nask the operating system for.",
"start": 4351.25,
"duration": 4.07
},
{
"text": "I only asked it for 10, not 11.",
"start": 4355.32,
"duration": 2.98
},
{
"text": "And so Valgrind is telling me, somewhat\ncryptically, that I've screwed up.",
"start": 4358.3,
"duration": 4.69
},
{
"text": "On line 8 ultimately I've screwed\nup by touching 4 bytes of memory",
"start": 4362.99,
"duration": 4.23
},
{
"text": "that I shouldn't have.",
"start": 4367.22,
"duration": 1.63
},
{
"text": "Meanwhile, a little\nmore worrisome is this.",
"start": 4368.85,
"duration": 2.74
},
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"text": "Address such and such as\nzero bytes after a block",
"start": 4371.59,
"duration": 2.63
},
{
"text": "of size 4 allots, da-da da-da.",
"start": 4374.22,
"duration": 1.94
},
{
"text": "Oh, not that.",
"start": 4376.16,
"duration": 0.78
},
{
"text": "Let's focus on-- here we go.",
"start": 4376.94,
"duration": 3.103
},
{
"text": "Uh oh.",
"start": 4380.043,
"duration": 0.747
},
{
"text": "Leak summary.",
"start": 4380.79,
"duration": 1.06
},
{
"text": "Definitely lost.",
"start": 4381.85,
"duration": 1.12
},
{
"text": "Oh, my god.",
"start": 4382.97,
"duration": 0.71
},
{
"text": "Like I have lost 40 bytes\nof the computer's memory.",
"start": 4383.68,
"duration": 2.71
},
{
"text": "Now what does that mean?",
"start": 4386.39,
"duration": 1.08
},
{
"text": "This simply means that\nValgrind has noticed",
"start": 4387.47,
"duration": 2.01
},
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"text": "that I must have called malloc\nor some similar function,",
"start": 4389.48,
"duration": 2.44
},
{
"text": "asked for memory, 40 bytes'\nworth, and never gave it back.",
"start": 4391.92,
"duration": 3.77
},
{
"text": "Well, we haven't introduced the\nway of giving memory back so let",
"start": 4395.69,
"duration": 2.89
},
{
"text": "me at least address that now.",
"start": 4398.58,
"duration": 1.63
},
{
"text": "But let me take this advice.",
"start": 4400.21,
"duration": 1.45
},
{
"text": "Rerun with leak check full to\nsee details of leaked memory.",
"start": 4401.66,
"duration": 2.999
},
{
"text": "So let me go ahead and do that.",
"start": 4404.659,
"duration": 1.291
},
{
"text": "Let me go ahead and copy\nthis so I can rerun Valgrind.",
"start": 4405.95,
"duration": 4.323
},
{
"text": "Whoops.",
"start": 4410.273,
"duration": 0.967
},
{
"text": "Valgrind.",
"start": 4411.24,
"duration": 0.857
},
{
"text": "With that command line argument.",
"start": 4412.097,
"duration": 1.333
},
{
"text": "Dot slash memory.",
"start": 4413.43,
"duration": 1.58
},
{
"text": "And now I'll see a little\nmore detail sometimes.",
"start": 4415.01,
"duration": 2.87
},
{
"text": "Although, it appears in this\ncase it's already pretty verbose.",
"start": 4417.88,
"duration": 3.36
},
{
"text": "And so indeed I've still\nlost 40 bytes in one block.",
"start": 4421.24,
"duration": 3.69
},
{
"text": "And up here again is a reiteration\nof that invalid right of size 4.",
"start": 4424.93,
"duration": 4.01
},
{
"text": "So how do I fix this?",
"start": 4428.94,
"duration": 1.38
},
{
"text": "Well, let me go back into my program.",
"start": 4430.32,
"duration": 1.74
},
{
"text": "And you know what?",
"start": 4432.06,
"duration": 0.76
},
{
"text": "The program's still pretty useless,\nbut at least let me fix that mistake.",
"start": 4432.82,
"duration": 3.91
},
{
"text": "And go ahead now and go at x bracket 9.",
"start": 4436.73,
"duration": 3.43
},
{
"text": "Let me remake my program.",
"start": 4440.16,
"duration": 1.35
},
{
"text": "Make memory.",
"start": 4441.51,
"duration": 1.48
},
{
"text": "And let me in my bigger terminal\nwindow do Valgrind dot slash memory.",
"start": 4442.99,
"duration": 6.9
},
{
"text": "And now, oh, damn it.",
"start": 4449.89,
"duration": 1.12
},
{
"text": "Still have definitely lost\n40 bytes in one blocks,",
"start": 4451.01,
"duration": 2.53
},
{
"text": "but notice the output\nis much shorter now.",
"start": 4453.54,
"duration": 3.19
},
{
"text": "I don't have a mistake that\nwas higher up here before.",
"start": 4456.73,
"duration": 2.57
},
{
"text": "So I fixed one problem.",
"start": 4459.3,
"duration": 1.2
},
{
"text": "Let me go ahead and\nfix that other problem.",
"start": 4460.5,
"duration": 1.86
},
{
"text": "After using this memory,\nlet me go ahead and free x.",
"start": 4462.36,
"duration": 4.2
},
{
"text": "So free is the opposite\nof malloc in this case.",
"start": 4466.56,
"duration": 3.1
},
{
"text": "And if I go ahead and recompile\nmake memory and then run it",
"start": 4469.66,
"duration": 3.44
},
{
"text": "in my bigger terminal window, nice.",
"start": 4473.1,
"duration": 3.4
},
{
"text": "All heap blocks were freed.",
"start": 4476.5,
"duration": 2.3
},
{
"text": "No leaks are possible.",
"start": 4478.8,
"duration": 2.35
},
{
"text": "Now what does that mean?",
"start": 4481.15,
"duration": 1.19
},
{
"text": "Well, it turns out, when we\nlook at our computer's memory,",
"start": 4482.34,
"duration": 4.124
},
{
"text": "there is indeed that stack at the\nbottom that we talked about earlier.",
"start": 4486.464,
"duration": 2.916
},
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"text": "And the stack is where frames of\nmemory go, slices of memory go,",
"start": 4489.38,
"duration": 3.96
},
{
"text": "that are used when\nfunctions are being called.",
"start": 4493.34,
"duration": 2.53
},
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"text": "And they get layered\non top of each other",
"start": 4495.87,
"duration": 2.18
},
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"text": "and get un-layered only\nonce the function's return.",
"start": 4498.05,
"duration": 2.64
},
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"text": "The heap, meanwhile, is a chunk of\nmemory above the stack, by design.",
"start": 4500.69,
"duration": 3.77
},
{
"text": "At least as we've drawn it here.",
"start": 4504.46,
"duration": 1.59
},
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"text": "And in the heap you have just\na pool of available memory",
"start": 4506.05,
"duration": 4.44
},
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"text": "that you can draw from at any point.",
"start": 4510.49,
"duration": 2.76
},
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"text": "And what's powerful\nabout the heap is that,",
"start": 4513.25,
"duration": 2.37
},
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"text": "whereas the stack keeps growing\nup and then as functions return",
"start": 4515.62,
"duration": 3.28
},
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"text": "it grows back down thereby\nthrowing away, effectively",
"start": 4518.9,
"duration": 3.67
},
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"text": "losing track of, any memory\nthat we had on the stack,",
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"duration": 2.69
},
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"text": "like x's and y's and a's and\nb's and temp variables still,",
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"duration": 3.7
},
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"text": "the heap does not experience\nthat kind of disposal of memory.",
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"duration": 5.44
},
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"text": "If you ask for memory via malloc, malloc\ngives you a chunk of memory over here,",
"start": 4534.4,
"duration": 5.38
},
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"text": "or over here, or over here, up above\nthe stack inside of the so-called heap.",
"start": 4539.78,
"duration": 4.92
},
{
"text": "And even when your function\nreturns, whether it's f, or swap,",
"start": 4544.7,
"duration": 3.77
},
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"text": "or something else, that use of\nmemory persists permanently.",
"start": 4548.47,
"duration": 5.49
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"text": "Only once you call free do\nyou give that chunk of memory",
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"duration": 3.11
},
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"text": "back to the operating\nsystem and allow it to reuse",
"start": 4557.07,
"duration": 2.68
},
{
"text": "that memory for something else.",
"start": 4559.75,
"duration": 2.48
},
{
"text": "But unfortunately this\npicture kind of suggests",
"start": 4562.23,
"duration": 3.23
},
{
"text": "a problem and bad design in some sense.",
"start": 4565.46,
"duration": 2.62
},
{
"text": "Although, given a finite\namount of memory, eventually",
"start": 4568.08,
"duration": 2.37
},
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"text": "something's got to bump\nup against something else",
"start": 4570.45,
"duration": 2.18
},
{
"text": "if you want to keep asking\nfor and using memory.",
"start": 4572.63,
"duration": 2.38
},
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"text": "Those arrows kind of suggest\nthat the stack and the heap",
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"text": "are really destined to collide\nwith each other if what happens?",
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"text": "Well, if the stack grows too large.",
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"text": "In other words, if you keep calling\nfunction after function after function",
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"text": "after function and never return.",
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"text": "And maybe this is accidental.",
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"text": "Maybe you're using\nrecursion, per last time,",
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"text": "and you accidentally\ndon't have a base case",
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"text": "so you just keep calling functions.",
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"text": "So much so that you\nrun out of stack space.",
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"text": "Or maybe you call malloc so many\ntimes that the heap keeps growing down",
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"text": "and down and hits the stack, meanwhile.",
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"text": "Either of those problems can persist.",
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"duration": 1.85
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"text": "And you might recognize\nsome familiar terms.",
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"text": "The first of those scenarios\ndescribe stack overflow.",
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"text": "So if any of you have ever discovered\nthe website, Stack Overflow,",
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"text": "which is a wonderful\nplace to go for advice",
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"duration": 3.632
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"text": "and tips and tricks with\nprogramming, more generally.",
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"text": "stackoverflow.com draws its name\nfrom exactly that programming",
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"text": "risk and problem.",
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"text": "Heap overflow is similar in spirit.",
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"text": "It's just the opposite.",
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"text": "When the heap grows down\ntoo far, as we've drawn it.",
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"text": "And they're both\nexamples, more generally,",
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"text": "of what you might call buffer overflows.",
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"text": "A buffer is a chunk of space that's\ntypically finite in some form",
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"text": "and you can eventually overflow it\nby trying to use more memory then",
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"text": "you should have.",
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"text": "And a buffer overflows\ntypically actually relates",
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"text": "to arrays and chunks of memory.",
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"text": "And, in fact, a great example\nfrom Wikipedia is this one here.",
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"text": "The code is a little cryptic too because\nit doesn't really do anything useful,",
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"duration": 4.04
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"text": "but it's fundamentally\nflawed in the following way.",
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"text": "Let's consider exactly what happens\nwhen you have a stack overflow.",
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"text": "It turns out that this is a bad\nenough problem that you can actually",
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"text": "lose control over your computer itself.",
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"text": "It can be hacked into if\nan adversary, a bad guy,",
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"text": "has the ability somehow to inject his\nor her own adversarial code, code that",
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"duration": 5.41
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"text": "deletes your files, or encrypt your\nfiles, or does something malicious,",
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"duration": 3.79
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"text": "into your program because of a\nmemory related mistake you've made.",
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"duration": 3.13
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"text": "Let's consider this example.",
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"text": "Here's the main function.",
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"duration": 1.15
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"text": "In this particular example, it takes\ncommand line arguments arg-c and arg-v",
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"text": "and just apparently calls this function\nfoo, passing in the second word",
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"duration": 5.0
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"text": "that the user typed in.",
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"duration": 1.02
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"text": "So the first command line argument\nthat the user ran at the prompt.",
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"text": "And it just blindly does this.",
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"text": "It doesn't check arg-c, it doesn't check\nfor null, it doesn't check anything.",
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"text": "It just blindly passes\nin arg-v bracket 1.",
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"text": "And that's generally bad practice.",
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"duration": 1.416
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{
"text": "Right?",
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"text": "If you're not error checking, bad things\nare likely going to happen eventually.",
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"text": "Well, what does foo do?",
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"text": "Foo takes a char star as inputs.",
"start": 4715.9,
"duration": 2.99
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"text": "Now, a week ago, we would\nhave said string bar,",
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"text": "but we don't need to\nhide that detail anymore.",
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"text": "Bar is just the address of a character.",
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"text": "It's a string.",
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"text": "Foo returns nothing, but\nhas two lines of code.",
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"text": "First, it declares an array\ncalled c-- just because.",
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"text": "This is kind of a\ncontrived example online,",
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"text": "but the pictures will\ntell it all-- of size 12.",
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"text": "So this is saying, hey, computer.",
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"text": "Give me an array of 12 characters.",
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"text": "And then, mem copy, you\nmight not have seen before,",
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"text": "but it essentially does this it\ncopies into this chunk of memory",
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"text": "whatever is at that chunk of\nmemory up to this many bytes.",
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"text": "So mem copy, as the names\nsuggests, copies memory from here",
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"text": "to here a total number\nof this many bytes.",
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"text": "So why is this worrisome?",
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"text": "Well, if for whatever reason\nyou have only allocated 12 bytes",
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"text": "and the user has typed\na word at the prompt",
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"duration": 2.82
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"text": "when running your program\nthat is more than 12 bytes,",
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"text": "it would seem that the user\nis able to touch memory",
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"text": "that you the programmer never intended.",
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"text": "Why?",
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"text": "Well, your use of mem copy is\nchecking the length of something,",
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"text": "but it's checking the length of bar.",
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"duration": 1.92
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"text": "So if the user types in not 12\ncharacters, but 20 characters,",
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"text": "strleng of bar is going to be 20.",
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"text": "The user's input is 20 characters long.",
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"text": "So your code is saying copy\n20 characters from bar into c.",
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"text": "Unfortunately, c is only of size 12 and\nso that's 8 bytes you end up copying",
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"text": "that you shouldn't.",
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"text": "So if you were given a chunk of\nmemory here that's only of size 8",
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"text": "and you're just 12, you're touching\n8 more bytes to the right of it,",
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"text": "so to speak, that don't\nactually belong to you.",
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"duration": 3.26
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"text": "Now, at best, nothing's going to happen.",
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"duration": 2.056
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"text": "Your computer, your program\nis not going to notice.",
"start": 4828.956,
"duration": 2.124
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"text": "Things are just going to hum along\nand all is going to seem fine.",
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"duration": 3.39
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"text": "Much like my memory\nprogram a moment ago.",
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"text": "Seemed fine, but Valgrind\nthought otherwise.",
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"duration": 2.79
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"text": "In this case, really\nbad things can happen.",
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"text": "Because if what the human adversary,\nthe bad guy, has typed at the prompt",
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"text": "is not just some word like foo,\nor bar, or David, or Zamyla,",
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"text": "but is actually the ASCII equivalent,\nso the textual equivalent,",
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"text": "of some malicious code-- so if he or\nshe actually somehow typed at the prompt",
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"text": "a pattern of characters that really\nrepresent a pattern of bits that",
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"text": "do something bad, like\ndelete all your files,",
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"text": "or spam everyone in your address\nbook, or any number of things.",
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"text": "If they provide a string that's\nlonger than 12 characters,",
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"text": "the overflow is going to\nend up somewhere in memory.",
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"duration": 3.25
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{
"text": "And where is that?",
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"text": "Well, let's zoom in a little lower level\nto what your computer's memory looks",
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"text": "like on the stack.",
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"duration": 1.78
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{
"text": "So it's a little more detail.",
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"text": "So let's absorb this for just a moment.",
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"text": "Think of this now as the bottom of\nthe stack, parent routines stack.",
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"text": "So you can think of this as main, or\nfoo, or some function on the stack.",
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"text": "It turns out-- and I didn't\nmention this earlier--",
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"text": "that besides there being arguments\nor parameters on the stack",
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"text": "uses the stack just to kind of store\na reminder for itself of the address",
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"text": "in memory of the\nfunction that called it.",
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"text": "So if this picture represents foo, the\nfunction right now, who called foo?",
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"text": "Main called foo and so what foo\ndoes is, on its own stack, it",
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"text": "just kind of jots down a note to\nitself here in pink, where it says,",
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"text": "return address, when I'm done,\nreturn to this address of main.",
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"text": "The computer does that for itself.",
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"text": "So when foo is done executing,\npreviously, I just wipe the screen",
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"text": "and remove foo.",
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"duration": 1.04
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"text": "But how does the program know where\nto go back to after foo is done?",
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"text": "It's because it put a little\nbread crumb for itself.",
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"text": "The address of main, itself.",
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"text": "Not the address of variables, the\naddress of the function itself,",
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{
"text": "which, recall, is in the text\nsegment of your computer's memory.",
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"text": "But never mind that for now.",
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"text": "So now, let's look at what the stack\nframe for foo is actually like.",
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"text": "Here is that array of size 12.",
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"text": "And it's drawn as a rectangle.",
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"text": "If we made it wider, we could just\ndo 0, 1, 2, all the way through C 11,",
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"text": "but the author of this graphic has just\ndrawn things a little more square like.",
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"text": "So this is the first byte in C and\nthis is the last byte in C, 0 and 11,",
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"text": "respectively.",
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"text": "And then bar, recall, is the\nonly argument to the foo function",
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"text": "and that, as I did mention before,\nbelongs on the stack as well.",
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"text": "But here's the problem.",
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"text": "And this is by design.",
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"text": "It appears that whoever\ndesigned the stack,",
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"text": "And that's how I described it earlier.",
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"text": "So the stack itself grows up.",
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"text": "Frames go up and up and up and up.",
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"text": "But within a frame, notice what happens.",
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"text": "Within a frame, if you've got a buffer,\nan array of memory, a chunk of memory,",
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"text": "and you write to it, you start\nwriting to that memory, by design,",
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"text": "at the top left corner, so to\nspeak, to the right, and then down,",
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"text": "and then down.",
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"text": "So top left to bottom\nright, so to speak.",
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"text": "Pictorially.",
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"text": "This was not necessarily a good\nthing, at least in this case.",
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"text": "Because if the stack is growing up\nand this is the top of foo's frame",
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"text": "and it's use of the array\nc is by design going down,",
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"text": "that's all fine if the user only\nprovides a string of length 12 or less,",
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"text": "12 or shorter, but in this case if\nthe adversary types in a 20 character",
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"text": "is not just going to stop there.",
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"text": "Unless you wrote code\nwith an if condition",
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"text": "to check the length that the user\nis trying to pass in and protect",
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"text": "against that, it's\ngoing to overwrite all",
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"text": "of these bytes, all of these bytes,\nwhatever this is, all of these bytes,",
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"text": "and this is what's worrisome.",
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"text": "If you have a really smart\nadversary up against you,",
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"text": "trying to hack into your system, and he\nor she is smart enough or lucky enough",
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"text": "to figure out how to inject a pattern\nof bits into your program in this way,",
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"text": "such that he or she overwrites\nthis return address,",
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"text": "a really clever adversary\ncan trick your program",
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"text": "into returning to, not the\nfunction that called foo, main,",
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"text": "but returning to the address\nof the adversary's own function",
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"duration": 4.32
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"text": "that he or she has somehow injected\nby way of typing input at the prompt,",
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"duration": 5.5
},
{
"text": "in this case.",
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"duration": 1.11
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"text": "In other words, if the user types in\njust, hello, h-e-l-l-o, backslash, 0,",
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"text": "all is fine and good and it\nfits perfectly in that frame.",
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"duration": 3.05
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"text": "But because we didn't\nhave good error checking",
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"text": "on the length of the\nmemory we're copying,",
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"duration": 2.79
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"text": "suppose the adversary includes a\nwhole bunch of adversarial code, which",
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"text": "the author here abstracted away as a,\na, a, adversary, or attack, attack,",
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"text": "attack, what might actually happen here?",
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"text": "Well, if that adversary gets\nlucky enough or is smart enough,",
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"duration": 4.28
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"text": "he or she might be able to\noverwrite these 4 bytes here",
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"text": "with the address, brilliantly,\nof his or her own attack code,",
"start": 5132.86,
"duration": 5.87
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"text": "which is the bits or the characters\nthat he or she typed at the prompt.",
"start": 5138.73,
"duration": 3.51
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{
"text": "So again, a lot of this is luck.",
"start": 5142.24,
"duration": 1.46
},
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"text": "Or a lot of this is trial\nand error sometimes,",
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"duration": 2.08
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"text": "to attack a program in\nthis way, but if you",
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"duration": 2.28
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"text": "can trick the computer into\njumping to an address that",
"start": 5148.06,
"duration": 3.82
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"text": "happens to point at data you\ninjected into the program,",
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"text": "DAVID J. MALAN: OK.",
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"text": "So this is just nonsense.",
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"text": "Enhance doesn't really\ngenerally mean enhance when you",
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"text": "have a finite amount of information.",
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"text": "For instance, here is a\nfinite amount of information.",
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"text": "A photograph of Zamyla that\nlooks to be of very high quality.",
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"text": "what if you did this?",
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"text": "What if you wrote software that iterated\nfrom the start of your memory card",
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"text": "or your phone all the way to the end of\nyour phone or your memory card's memory",
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"text": "looking for this pattern of\nbits, this pattern of numbers",
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"text": "or hexadecimal digits, this pattern\nof 24 bits-- 8 plus 8 plus 8?",
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"text": "With high probability,\nif, upon iterating",
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"text": "you can perhaps infer that the following\nmegabytes-- 2 megabytes, however",
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"text": "big the photograph is-- is\nthe entirety of a photo.",
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"text": "maybe you can recover\nall or some of the photo.",
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"text": "And indeed, one of the challenges\nyou'll soon see in our problems",
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"text": "that focus on forensics is\ngoing to be exactly this.",
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"text": "We will accidentally format a memory\ncard from a camera or a phone.",
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"text": "and challenge you with writing software\nthat iterates over that file's bytes,",
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"text": "from the 0th byte all the way to the end\nof the file, looking for this pattern.",
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"text": "this is probably a JPEG.",
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"text": "a perfect example of a bitmap image\nfrom Windows XP back in the day.",
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"text": "looked like this.",
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"text": "As an aside, if you go poking\naround I think on Wikipedia,",
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"text": "and it now looks like this.",
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"text": "So it's not quite the\nbeautiful place it once was,",
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"text": "but that, indeed, is the same hill.",
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"text": "We very quickly can make nature\nseem very boring quickly with this.",
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"text": "or desktop, or phone, or wherever.",
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"text": "file like that grassy\nmeadow from Windows XP.",
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"text": "And we'll come back to this in more\ndetail and the problem set before long.",
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"text": "But you'll notice some identifiers\nhere that might jump out at you.",
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"text": "Is it compressed, and how?",
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"text": "And then more interestingly,\nat the bottom of this picture",
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"text": "per our discussion of colors in week 0.",
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"text": "And so that's what most\nof a bitmap file is here.",
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"text": "What color is this dot?",
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"text": "What color is this dot?",
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"text": "All of that is standardized\ninside of the file.",
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"text": "And it turns out in C, we can express\nand represent that kind of structure",
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"text": "using one last keyword for this week.",
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"text": "come with a data type\nthat represents students.",
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"text": "the combination of a few things.",
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"text": "And let's keep it simple.",
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"text": "And bunches of other detail, but for\nnow, let's just focus on name and dorm.",
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"text": "Now the syntax is a\nlittle new for us here,",
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"text": "So it's a little more complicated\nthan our typedef for a string,",
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"text": "because a string was just\na synonym for char star.",
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"text": "This case, a student, is a synonym\nfor this container of things.",
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"text": "It's like encapsulating two\npieces of data-- name and dorm.",
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"text": "But this is really useful as follows.",
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"text": "With this kind of C code, can\nwe now do things like this?",
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"text": "included CS50.h in my own header file.",
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"text": "Why?",
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"text": "Well, just for today's\npurposes, I wanted",
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"text": "But technically, I could just do this.",
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"text": "And technically I could do this.",
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"text": "And then I could get rid of that,\nbecause now this is true C code.",
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"text": "There is no need for the CS50 library.",
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"text": "is certainly fine.",
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"text": "But let me now open up structs-0.c\nand do something with this.",
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"text": "This is an example of a constant.",
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"text": "Sharp define or pound define here\nsays, define, not a variable,",
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"text": "This is not a variable\nwhose value can change.",
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"text": "that is fixed now on that value 3.",
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"text": "And it's one way to define a constant\nin C, a value that does not change.",
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"text": "What am I now going\nto do with this value?",
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"text": "I first, here, declare a variable called\nstudents containing three students.",
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"text": "So it's a little confusing that we've\ngot students, STUDENTS, student,",
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"text": "but they all mean different things.",
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"text": "students is just going\nby the name of my array.",
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"text": "And then student is the type of this\narray per the header file, structs.h.",
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"text": "So this is just really a\nsuccinct way of saying,",
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"text": "hey, computer, give me an array of size\n3 inside of which are three students,",
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"text": "ultimately.",
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"text": "Now here's an array that\niterates from i up to three.",
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"text": "And then notice this new operator dot.",
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"text": "And do the same thing for dorm.",
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"text": "Go into the i-th student's structure,\nand store at the dorm field",
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"text": "at what this program proceeds to do.",
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"text": "It's a very simple loop that sort\nof, just for demonstration's sake,",
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"text": "In other words, if I go down here\nand compile structs-0, and then",
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"text": "run structs-0-- I'm going\nto go ahead and type",
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"text": "in David Mather and Rob and\nKirkland and Zumilah and Courier,",
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"text": "and you see literally a\nregurgitation of what I wrote.",
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"text": "But what's key here is the\nsyntax that I've introduced.",
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"text": "I'm using a struct, and I'm\naccessing its properties or fields",
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"text": "within by way of this dot operator.",
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"text": "Just means go inside the\nstruct and get that value.",
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"text": "But more cool than that is that\nnow that we understand files,",
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"text": "and now that we have the ability to\nstore arbitrary structures that did not",
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"text": "come with C, so to speak,\nnotice what else we can do.",
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"text": "In this version of the program,\nI'm adding one final feature,",
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"text": "combining today's discussion\nof pointers with this most",
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"text": "recent discussion of files.",
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"text": "It turns out, in C-- and\nit's a little inconsistent--",
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"text": "there is a data type called FILE in all\ncapital letters, for whatever reason.",
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"text": "file of type file star.",
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"text": "-OK.",
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"text": "Now let's get a good look at you.",
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"text": "-What's that?",
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"text": "-It's an enhancement program.",
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"text": "-Can you clear that up any?",
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"text": "-Maybe we can use the Pradeep\nSen method see into the windows.",
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"text": "-This software is state of the art.",
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"text": "-The eigenvalue is off.",
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"text": "DAVID J. MALAN: All right.",
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"text": "That's it for CS50.",
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"text": "-Everyone knows you went to Yale,\nbut nobody knows what happened.",
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