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> "Unfortunately", this is one of those one-in-a-million bugs
> that are hard to reproduce and that will happen at just the
> wrong moment...

The bttv capture bug Nathan nailed yesterday is a race under 100 clocks
wide. And it happens

> When programming for such a wide usage pattern, we
> just _have_ to take theoretical bugs into account
> as well... (QED)

There are no theoretical bugs. There are real bugs and their are thigns that
are safe but poorly documented so


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