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Comment by array_key_first

1 day ago

You cannot tell if code is actually reachable if it depends on runtime input.

Those really evil bugs are the ones that exist in code paths that only trigger 0.001% of the time.

Often, the code path is not triggerable at all with regular input. But with malicious input, it is, so you can only find it through fuzzing or human analysis.

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