I mentioned this once during a job interview – “describe the toughest bug you’ve had to investigate” – and the interviewer’s reaction was “yeah, we hit something similar on the Alpha processor”. The more things change…
Loving that. My experience is that everything is so buggy that every time you find something you believe to be unique, it basically just unlocks the chance to find peers :D.
“it’s still nerdy cool to see solid proof that instructions that were not executed were causing crashes.”
Well, they were executed but… also not executed. Something in between at ISA level. Kind of like the typical example of a financial transaction in multithreading intro’s but without the locks. One view says one thing, one view says another, and system runs wild.
Loving that. My experience is that everything is so buggy that every time you find something you believe to be unique, it basically just unlocks the chance to find peers :D.
“it’s still nerdy cool to see solid proof that instructions that were not executed were causing crashes.”
Well, they were executed but… also not executed. Something in between at ISA level. Kind of like the typical example of a financial transaction in multithreading intro’s but without the locks. One view says one thing, one view says another, and system runs wild.