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DavidVoid | 9 months ago

There's a great Random ASCII blog post about an obscure FPU issue like this [1].

  - The crash was in a FPU that Chrome barely uses  
  - The instruction that crashed Chrome was thousands of instructions away from the one that triggered the exception  
  - The instruction that triggered the exception was not at fault  
  - The crash only happened because of third-party code running inside of Chrome  
  - The crash was ultimately found to be caused by a code-gen bug in Visual Studio 2015
I've run into this kind of thing once myself (sharing a process with other companies is fun!). It was real confusing to get a stack trace showing our code suddenly crashing on a line of code that was doing the exact same thing with the exact same values as it had always done before.

[1]: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2016/09/16/everything-old-...

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