From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: quanstro@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom)
Date: Sun,  4 Sep 2011 14:36:35 -0400
Subject: [9fans] libmach x86 botch
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On Sun Sep  4 14:34:41 EDT 2011, rsc at swtch.com wrote:
> asm(stackaddress) is bogus not because of libmach
> but because asm is defined to disassemble from the
> text file, not from memory.  Run 'whatis asm' in acid and
> notice that it says @addr++ not *addr++.

clearly.  but that's not what i'm complaining about.
i'm complaining that asm(stackaddress) accesses uninitialized
memory when printing out the error, which is therefore
exceptionally misleading.

- erik