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Subject: Re: [patch/idea] Add register scrambling to testsuite
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Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com> writes:
> Once this is in we can just throw in a `vzeroall`.

As long as it doesn't zero all the registers, which is what blinded the
testcase that triggered this.  Oh wait...

Ideally we'd want to fill all registers with a large-ish constant that
isn't a valid pointer, like 0x13579bdf.  "obviously wrong" is the goal.