Home » Industry Watch » The Technological
What's Maynor Doing?Now he's perpetrating hoaxes?
The following is a screen dump taken from David Maynor's blog. It supposedly shows how Safari for Windows crashes.
But the line reading as follows is a format string. And it's not been filled in.
ERROR_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 - The instruction at "0x%08lx" referenced memory...
The '0x%08lx' is supposed to be filled in with the address of the instruction that caused the crash. The '0x' prefix is taken literally; the '%' introduces an argument on the stack to be formatted; and the '08lx' specifies at least eight digits with lower case hexadecimal from a long integer. It's a standard sprintf type of format string.
Either Microsoft are incredibly sloppy and can't produce diagnostics for any of their many crashes or this picture is a hoax.
|