Re: Bug in memset() causing quake3 to crash.

[Ulrich Drepper]

Han <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> In recent versions of the kernel a bug apeared which caused quake3 to
> segfault during startup. It was discussed on this mailing list and
> recognized by Alan Cox:
> 
> http://opensource.creative.com/pipermail/emu10k1-devel/2001-September/004884.html

There is no desription of a problem.  And there will be no bug found
in memset.  It's most definitely just another incapable programmer who
assumes that memory can be write-only.

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