Package: qemu Version: 0.8.2-5 Severity: minor I just finished debugging a particularly hard bug in my new hobby OS. The problem was that I was using uninitialised memory. In qemu (and bochs), this was all 0, which was exactly what it should be initialised to. This means the problem wasn't triggered in qemu. However, on real hardware the memory isn't 0, so I had a wild pointer. The hard part of the bug was mostly that I couldn't use qemu (or bochs) to debug it, since the bug didn't show up there.
So I think the memory should be initialised as garbage to be more like real hardware, so that bugs like mine can be debugged using qemu. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages qemu depends on: ii bochsbios 2.3-2 BIOS for the Bochs emulator ii libasound2 1.0.13-2 ALSA library ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.11-8 Simple DirectMedia Layer ii openhackware 0.4.1-2 OpenFirmware emulator for PowerPC ii proll 18-2 JavaStation PROM 2.x compatible re ii vgabios 0.6a-1 VGA BIOS software for the Bochs an ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages qemu recommends: ii debootstrap 0.3.3.2 Bootstrap a basic Debian system ii sharutils 1:4.2.1-15 shar, unshar, uuencode, uudecode ii vde 2.1.6-1 transitional dummy package which c -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
