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davidk@lysator.liu.se (David Kågedal) writes:

> As I understand Marcus (out mutual friend who investigated this),
> the code uses arrays for some sort of prediction, but it indexes
> them at least one index off, resulting in both that the predictions
> don't work as expected, and that it reads memory outside the table.
> This out-of-bounds memory happens to be in another structure in the
> compface code, but since everybody uses the same code, it always
> works the same way.

How can this out-of-bound reads ever work cross-platform?  I mean,
X-Faces created on sparcs can be read on both sparcs, intels, and
alphas.  If their creation/rendition were truly the result of
out-of-bounds randomness, I don't see how it could work.