Handle Aliasing Bugs: Concept Explained

Concept

In short: Aliasing bugs happen when two handles reference one object, so changing expected data also mutates observed data and hides real mismatches.

A classic midnight failure is a scoreboard mismatch that disappears when extra prints are added. The prints change timing, but the actual culprit is aliasing: expected and actual entries in queues point to the same nested payload object.\n\nThe durable pattern is ownership-aware cloning: every owned handle gets deep-copied, and snapshots pushed into analysis FIFOs are immutable copies, not live objects that can still be mutated by drivers or monitors.

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