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A comment on Apple’s M1 processor and the full 128-bit integer product. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s M1 processor and the full 128-bit integer product by SigmundA on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @08:46PM (#26498604)
A user-land program cannot be at fault for a kernel panic, that is the kernels fault, always.
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Re:Apple’s M1 processor and the full 128-bit integer product by ridiculous_fish on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @11:58PM (#26499560)
xnu will panic if it doesn't receive periodic check-ins from userspace. For example if WindowServer hangs, then the kernel may deliberately panic so that the system reboots. See man watchdogd for (a tiny bit) more.
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Re:Apple’s M1 processor and the full 128-bit integer product by saagarjha on Thursday March 18, 2021 @01:34AM (#26499936)
True, but a third-party program shouldn’t really be able to do this, at least not easily.
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