From: adsgohere AT durchnull DOT de (Rudolf Polzer)
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Subject: Re: Peculiar behavior of program.
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Graaagh the Mighty <invalid AT erehwon DOT invalid> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:16:18 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii
> <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> sat on a tribble, which squeaked:
> 
> >No, I blame it on you: it's your bug that caused a GPF inside CWSDPMI.
> 
> There are clearly two bugs here:
> 1. My code crashed. Ergo, it has a bug.
> 2. CWSDPMI code crashed. Ergo, it has a bug.

Not really. You have access to ring 0 and can change any memory location you
want without error, if you know how to do this. So a crash in CWSDPMI does
not necessarily reveal a CWSDPMI bug.

-- 
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