Re: Register corruption --patch

[Jacek Kawa]

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@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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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Jacek Kawa  **Define the universe.  Give three examples.** [r.h.f.r]
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