Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Here's a whole description of the whole chain of events that led up to it 
> breaking.  I don't know if it got posted before, but it's pretty interesting.

> http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/342330/f66e8ace8a572bcb/

"But Herbert's patch added a line which dereferences the pointer prior
to the check. That, of course, is a bug."

  That's what I thought. You can't blame a compiler optimization for
"screwing up" buggy code, even though without the optimization the bug
would perhaps not have been symptomatic by pure chance.

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                                                          - Warp

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