alt Hacker NewsI guess those that wrote the preemption were on X86 where this doesn't happen thanks to variable length instructions being able to hold the constant and thus relied on the code-gen to do it atomically, then the ARM port had an automatic "split" from a higher level to make things "easy" thus giving us this bug.
Nobodys fault really, but bad results ensued.
> Nobodys fault really, but bad results ensued.
Uh, the fault is entirely in writing an assembler _that is not an assembler_, but rather something that is _almost_ like one but then 1% like an IR instead. It's an unforced error.