[MPlayer-users] Segmentation fault in pre5

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 03:40:49AM +0259, Ville Saari wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:45:35PM +0100, Martin Simmons wrote:
> 
> > There is plenty of other non deterministic problems that are not caused by
> > heat or urandom.  Particular cases that I've seen (not in mencoder yet):
> > 
> > - timing-related issues for interaction between threads or processes
> > - hardware bugs (CPUs with broken borderline cases in the MMU)
> > - OS bugs (causing registers to be corrupted)
> 
> And perhaps the most common one:
> 
> - Reading uninitialized memory.

well mencoder doesn't do that either afaik. :) valgrind will tell you
otherwise, but that's because it's not sufficiently smart to
understand the optimizations in lavc.

rich