An application's source code is provided to you, but it breaks when it is executed. You discover that it never crashes in the same location after executing it ten times in a debugger. The program only makes use of the C standard library and is single-threaded. What code mistakes might be to blame for this crash? How would you evaluate them all?

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An application's source code is provided to you, but it breaks when it is executed. You discover that it never crashes in the same location after executing it ten times in a debugger. The program only makes use of the C standard library and is single-threaded. What code mistakes might be to blame for this crash? How would you evaluate them all?

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