Weird non-determinism in 2197E1 (Interactive Graph)
While solving 2197E1 (Interactive Graph – Simple Version) in the recent Div 2, I ran into something really confusing, the same logic gave both AC and WA depending on tiny, irrelevant code changes.
I had multiple submissions within minutes:
Some Accepted, some WA on test 8 / 9 / 20 / 21 / 22 / 23
No logic changes. Same idea. Same queries.
The strangest example
This version ACs:
if (q == -1) { return; }
This version WAs:
if (q == -2) { return; } Logically, if I'm getting accepted, both branches are dead code.
Either the checker is non deterministic or there's some UB shenanigans going on.
Links to submissions
362583126 WA
362583031 AC
Darsh_Jain also tried testing it, and the following two submissions
362582232 WA
362581962 AC
And the difference between the two is only that we have added a comment in the first one!
FelixArg and sevlll777 pls help
EDIT: It was indeed UB :(, fixed now. PS: Always use #define _GLIBCXX_DEBUG kids.




