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amelius
on Jan 3, 2017
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Why isn't memset() async-signal-safe?
The CPU designers could have protected against this by randomly fluctuating the size of the xsave'd data.
monocasa
on Jan 4, 2017
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At the cost of extra bandwidth and interrupt latency.
amelius
on Jan 4, 2017
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Yes, but only marginally if they changed the size only 1 out of 1000 times.
spdionis
on Jan 4, 2017
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Adding complexity (that could result in bugs) in the hope to prevent bugs by bad usage of the interface is usually a bad idea.
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