[Not really OT] Crowdstrike Analysis: It was a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C++ language.

[Kagamin]

On Wednesday, 24 July 2024 at 16:47:26 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 July 2024 at 14:03:31 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> I don't think computers can do nothing. When they are turned 
>> off they do nothing indeed, but something must turn off the 
>> computer for it to become turned off, and that's an involved 
>> procedure that doesn't count as "do nothing". So it's not 
>> clear what you mean, what CPU instruction should execute to 
>> "do nothing"?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOP_(code)

So a safe program must execute nop instruction in an infinite 
loop? How is it better than crashing?