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Re: [MiNT] bzero

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Subject: Re: [MiNT] bzero
From: Frank Naumann <fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 10:18:40 +0100 (CET)
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Hello!

>   Obviously, I'm doing an all nighter here.  As I didn't notice that quickzero
> is doing it's movem 8 times, 4*8*8 = 256.  But, for some reason this precise
> routine bzero is writing beyond it's boundaries in the arp_alloc routine.
> Commenting out bzero, it works perfectly.

Are you sure it overwrite it's boundaries? Depending on the blocksize this
mean it destroy internal kernel data that should result in some fatal
errors later.


Ciao
   ...Frank

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