I've been chasing down some weird panics in my CAM driver and have
noticed that functions don't seem to save all register values before
they modify them.

For example, function A uses register ecx to hold the value of a pointer. Part way 
through, function A calls function B which uses ecx as a loop index. The bad part is 
function B never saves/restores the value of ecx and function A starts dereferencing 
garbage.

An informal sampling of my driver seems to indicate that ebx gets
pushed/poped at entry/exit but ecx and edx don't. Does any of this
sound familiar? Thanks!

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Chuck Tuffli    <chuck_tuffli AT NO_SPAM agilent DOT com>
Agilent Technologies, Storage and Networking

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