Closed Bug 785737 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

"poison overwritten" abort should print values to distinguish overwriting from hardware problems

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(Core :: Layout, defect)

defect
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normal

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RESOLVED FIXED
mozilla18

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(Reporter: dbaron, Assigned: dbaron)

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We've had a number of reports of the "PresArena: poison overwritten" assertion (bug 772725, bug 775045) that seem likely to be the result of bad hardware rather than bad software.

Given that bad hardware seems likely to result in things like single bit errors, and bad software seems likely to result in entire words being overwritten, we should make this abort print more information so that we can distinguish the two cases.
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/af0b960c0418
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla18
This change came in handy in bug 799091 :)
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