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Re: Experiencing unreproducible internal compiler errors <<whinge>>
On Mar 18, 2000, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@delorie.com> wrote:
>> The issue is that, if you can't repeat a compiler crash, odds are that
>> it's not a bug in the compiler. There's not any source of randomness
>> in it that could cause it to crash only sometimes, given the same
>> input.
> There is one source of randomness: the contents of memory before the
> compiler is invoked.
Nope, the kernel zeroes out any memory before it is given to a
process. Uninitialized memory is only a problem within the same
process, but then, it is not random.
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