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Non-pessimal patching is possible

Posted Oct 23, 2008 17:59 UTC (Thu) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647)
In reply to: Non-pessimal patching is possible by Trou.fr
Parent article: The source of the e1000e corruption bug

Updating flags would be fine, because the compiler has already assumed that the flags would get messed up by the original function call.

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