22 Mar
2004
22 Mar
'04
5:39 p.m.
Antonio Carlini wrote:
I never had access to AXE, but as I understand it, it
would
generate semi-random sequences of instructions and then
execute them. Then it would compare the actual results
with known good results. I don't know the details of how
it would determine "known good results" given that the sequence
was semi-random.
So you would kick it off and if the machine under test did not
fall over in a heap after a few weeks or months of running,
then it was probably good enough.
But it still might never catch something like the Pentium divide bug.
Anyhow are not most problems with hardware and software now dynamic
in nature? My latest game freezes when I click on blah blah blah after
switching video modes during the internet software driver download.
Antonio