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    SubjectRe: Random Register Contents
    According to Andi Kleen:
    > In article <19981031181957.I11587@perlsupport.com>,
    > Chip Salzenberg <chip@perlsupport.com> writes:
    > > According to John Reiser:
    > >> I'm working on a product where it is desirable for a process to have as
    > >> much run-to-run repeatability as possible. I've run into problems with
    > >> exec() introducing needless randomness via the registers.
    >
    > > And random register contents are a problem because ... ??
    >
    > ... because conservative garbage collectors use the registers as root set.

    Hm, I suppose this could happen.

    > Also in theory it is a covert channel.

    Now _this_ I buy. Bug status confirmed, IMO.
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    Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
    "There -- we made them swerve slightly!" //MST3K

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