From: Jacek Kawa <jfk@zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Register corruption --patch
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 02:34:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041020003408.GA6101@finwe.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0410191112100.4820@chaos.analogic.com>
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
--
Jacek Kawa **Define the universe. Give three examples.** [r.h.f.r]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-20 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-19 15:14 Register corruption --patch Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-20 0:34 ` Jacek Kawa [this message]
2004-10-20 12:44 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-20 20:27 ` Jacek Kawa
2004-10-20 20:37 ` Richard B. Johnson
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