[PD-dev] amd64: rsqrt~

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> 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.

so still not knowing what might happen: it seems to be a buffer overflow 
that crashes pd as soon as the [rsqrt~]-object is created ? (or the dsp 
is turned on ??)

i'm just interested.


mfg.a.dsr
IOhannes