Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Oct 2004 02:34:08 +0200 | From | Jacek Kawa <> | Subject | Re: Register corruption --patch |
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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
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