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		SPascareli13 on July 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debugging an evil Go runtime bug: From heat guns t... If the orq instruction was really a noop then there would be no problem as well?

comex on July 20, 2024 [–]

In that case it couldn’t corrupt data, but the orq instruction itself could crash if it pointed to an unmapped address. (Which is kind of the point of stack probes.)

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