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Re:AVX register corruption from signal delivery by Gibbon1 on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @11:45PM (#21645314)
I remember an old game developer mentioning that they put a test for flaky cache memory in their installer and hacked up an error if it failed. Which significantly cut down the number of support calls.
Re:AVX register corruption from signal delivery by Gibbon1 on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:18PM (#21651651)
I misremembered, not support calls but bogus crash reports from flaky cache. Bogus crash reports like this are terrible because they aren't caused by bugs. And it's impossible to prove a negative.