Recommended update for ia32el
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(Last modified: 05DEC2005)
solutions Recommended update for ia32el SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (b5d9738597d73c365a6bdd3f408607d0)
Product(s): SUSE CORE 9 for Itanium Processor Family
Patch: patch-10573
Release: 20051205
Obsoletes: none
- A thread-suspension can return as successful although the thread is running
- Lock XADD executed as non-atomic during IA-32 Execution Layer interpreter phase (only at the beginning of the execution)
- Possible wrongs exception / suspension state in SSE code after behavior change
- An extended double-precision FMUL followed by double precision FST may result in a slight precision deviation
- Wrong CMPXCHG EAX/AL/AH, REG result during IA-32 Execution Layer interpreter phase
- Some combinations of NEG instruction, flag consumer, and register values can cause an incorrect flag to be emulated
- Posiible incorrect XMM register content when exiting from an early exit of a loop
- Wrong value of EAX can be reconstructed after exception/suspension occurs inside and FNSTSW-SAHF-JCC sequence
- Wrong content loaded from memory in case it is misaligned and placed between two identical loads overlapping with the other access
- Wrong IA-32 state can be restored when a thread that inspected modified code is resumed from suspension
- 32 bit core file name may not be accorfing to the specifications
- Applications using system calls sendmsg and recvmsg may not work correctly
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