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Every bug in this book passed the compiler. Every bug ran to completion. Every bug returned exit code zero. None of them told the truth.

Most C++ books teach you how to write code. This one teaches you how to investigate it.

C++ Autopsy presents ten forensic investigations into programs that appear perfectly healthy: they compile cleanly, execute normally, and quietly produce the wrong result. No syntax errors. No crashes. No obvious clues. Just evidence waiting to be examined.

Each case unfolds like a real investigation. You begin at the crime scene with a minimal, reproducible program. You examine the evidence, question the suspects—including one deliberate red herring—inspect real diagnostic output from professional tools, identify the true cause, and verify the fix. Every conclusion is backed by the C++ standard, compiler behavior, or observable runtime evidence.

Along the way, you'll uncover some of the language's most deceptive pitfalls: undefined behavior, lifetime errors, memory corruption, concurrency bugs, numerical surprises, optimizer assumptions, and subtle violations of the Standard Library's contracts. Some cases are caught immediately by modern tools. Others pass every warning, every sanitizer, and every test—exactly the kinds of defects that reach production.

Whether you write systems software, libraries, game engines, or high-performance applications, this book will change the way you debug C++. Instead of asking, \"Why did my program crash?\" you'll learn to ask the more dangerous question:

Why did it appear to work?

For intermediate and advanced C++ developers. Every example compiles with C++20. Every case is real. Every verdict is earned.

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