Re: [9fans] pineview atom

[Adrian Tritschler <ajft@ajft.org>]

On 19 February 2010 09:38, erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
>> There is no mechanism which directly translates bit flips
>> to crashes!  The bad case is actually a corruption which
>> does *not* cause a crash, but is written to disk.  How

> indirection?  executable code being turned into illegal
> instructions?  it's not 100% efficiency but it will translate
> flipped bits into crashes.

I believe Dave was implying that there is no mechanism that
_guarantees_ that a bit flip anywhere in memory will result in a code
crash.  Some bit flips just might mean the wrong colour pixel on your
screen, others might mean that someone's pay scale goes from $7.50 an
hour to $4096 + $17.50 an hour, some might just be in an unused chunk
of RAM. Flips in code are more likely to cause crashes, but still not
guaranteed.

> - erik

-- 
Adrian