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SubjectRe: Register corruption --patch
Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> This 'C' compiler destroys parameters passed to functions
> even though the code does not alter that parameter.
[example]
> This was from /usr/src/linux-2.6.9/arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c
> It this case, the value of 'sem' is destroyed which means that
> certain assembly-language helper functions no longer work.
>
> This was discovered by Aleksey Gorelov <Aleksey_Gorelov@Phoenix.com>
>
> I have been having trouble with mysterious things like:
[...]
> (4) Data errors in email.
> (5) Network connections failing to go away `netstat -c` shows
> hundreds of lines of very old history.
> ... etc.
>

Having troubles with some strange (and -as it seems- temporary)
data corruptions here[*], I was wondering, whether would it be
posiible to easily diagnose this somehow?

[*] like diff running serval times over same two files can
only once in a while show one character altered

bye

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