Jeff Smith <jeffs@geocast.com> writes:
> The issue is that the MIPS ovbcopy() uses negative offsets.  On
> user mode core dumps, all the user pages are copied into the core
> file.  With the QED processor, the copyout() would fail after ovbopy()
> faulted,  generating an incomplete core dump.

is this to say "ovbcopy() potentially touches pages in addition to
those specified by its arguments"?



cgd