Re: [Uuu-devel] new mystery bug

[Phil F. <da...@xg...>]

I guess it was a bochs bug; I got a new bochs and it seems to work just fine
with the same image, yet the bochs i had continues to fail.

On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:45:00AM -0500, Phil Frost wrote:
> Late this morning i was working on hydrogen and started getting the mystery
> bug again :( I'm using the latest bochs as of yesterday; i have not yet tried
> the updates that were commited today. A tarball of the buggy code is at
> http://xgs.dhs.org/uuu-xgs-yttrium-bug.tar.bz2.
> 
> Execution seem to go wrong at EIP = 0x97A4; the byte at that offset is 0x11
> but it's something else when bochs gets to it; thus the jz jmps to the wrong
> offset. I didn't get much of a chance to look at it but i tried putting a
> write watchpoint on this location; it only caught the expected write when
> the core is loaded from disk. I'm wondering if maybe this is that bochs bug;
> the trace-on behaviour is diffrent from the trace-off.