[MPlayer-users] Segmentation fault in pre5

Ville Saari 113762 at vs.iki.fi
Mon Oct 18 02:41:49 CEST 2004


On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:45:35PM +0100, Martin Simmons wrote:

> There is plenty of other non deterministic problems that are not caused by
> heat or urandom.  Particular cases that I've seen (not in mencoder yet):
> 
> - timing-related issues for interaction between threads or processes
> - hardware bugs (CPUs with broken borderline cases in the MMU)
> - OS bugs (causing registers to be corrupted)

And perhaps the most common one:

- Reading uninitialized memory.

-- 
 Ville




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