On Sunday, January 16, 2005 2:24 pm, Stephane Marchesin wrote:
> Jesse Barnes wrote:
> >I figured other projects might have similar problems, thanks for checking
> > dri.
>
> Please note that I didn't actually check the dri. I just happened to get
> an MCA from time to time at mesa solo startup and your post on the SDL
> list showed a possible reason to me.
>
> >I already audited the xserver tree (not Xorg, but xserver, the one with
> >kdrive and the other simple X servers) and it seems ok.
>
> So, I looked at the radeon & r200 dri drivers and found no other
> suspicious memset. Can't really say for others drivers since I'm not too
> confident in my understanding of these.
> Btw, will this happen only with memset (and not with memcpy for example) ?

I think any of the highly optimized mem* routines will do it.  I don't know 
the exact cause offhand though--might be prefetching or multiword accesses or 
something.

Jesse


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