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Subject: Re: Wow!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:08:06 12/19/02

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On December 19, 2002 at 12:38:45, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On December 19, 2002 at 11:40:11, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>And it did hang, but it actually played complete games on ICC without a
>>problem, and then it would hang in three consecutive games and lose on time.
>
>I'm guessing the reason why this was never noticed before is
>that the lock had to be set and be cleared within the window of 2
>intructions between the 2 loops. That's pretty much a freak occurence
>that you're not going to be able to debug via normal means.
>
>With the pause added in, you suddenly have a window of several
>hundred instructions and it's going to bomb out more.
>
>Nice catch, I have the same bug.
>
>I've seen this spinlock loop elsewhere so I assume there is going
>to be other software that's buggered in the same way.
>
>--
>GCP

This was something I wrote from scratch, so I doubt anybody else has the
same bug.  And since it hasn't been distributed yet, I haven't propagated
it to others.  :)





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