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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Organization: Home, sweet home
To: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>, fighteer AT cs DOT com
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 18:56:44 +0100
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Subject: Re: getCPU() patch
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Once upon a time (on 10 Dec 96 at 21:36), John M. Aldrich said:

> Mark Habersack wrote:
> > 
> > Attached to this message you will find a version of my getCPU()
> > routine found in cpu.c of John Aldrich's DJVERIFY utility. This
> > one should work. I write should as it always did on my machine
> > (P150) and also on many others. Yet it mysteriously failed on
> > some...
> 
> As I told Mark earlier, I finally found the bug in his code.  It was
> truly a work of art; it took me over 3 weeks to find and ultimately
> a marathon debugging session using edebug32, fsdb, and gdb.

And it should be noted here that the bug was entirely my fault. It 
was a very stupid mistake in porting that code from Intel to AT&T 
format. Thanks John!

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