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Test Name: bz464146-sp-corruption - Bugzilla(s) 464146
Author: Petr Muller <pmuller@redhat.com>
Location: /tools/glibc/Regression/bz464146-sp-corruption
Short Description: Test for bz464144, a stack pointer corruption problem
Long Description:
In real life, the problem is only likely to occur with very large applications with hundreds of threads. The result of the bug is that a stack might suddenly jump to an area of virtual memory 4GB away from where it should be.