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Glibc change exposing bugs

Glibc change exposing bugs

Posted Nov 12, 2010 22:56 UTC (Fri) by gus3 (guest, #61103)
In reply to: Glibc change exposing bugs by jmm82
Parent article: Glibc change exposing bugs

Given that the total calculations will be less than one memory page, or one cache line, and the tests can be marked in code as "likely to fail" (that is, no crash and burn), Intel's post-486 processors will already be fetching the normal (everything's OK) code by the time the final test calculations are done. The branch prediction will fail on the crash-and-burn case.


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