[PD-dev] amd64: rsqrt~

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Sun Sep 11 22:48:11 CEST 2005


On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> oh i forgot to mention: my 64bit machine is running debian x86_64; all
> my applications are compiled as 64-bit. so the bug should expose to me
> but i still don't even know what it is (apart from "a bug")

The rsqrt bug is not guaranteed to manifest itself because memory layout 
decisions made by the compiler may very well hide the bug, e.g. if the 
area clobbered by the buffer overflow is left unused.

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