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Subject: Re: reasons for rewriting regular memory (was: [ANNOUNCE]: clang
 compiling ports, take 2)
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> I agree, but I can think of another valid exception. System with
> Hamming correction on the memory, gets a single bit (correctable)
> error. Need to rewrite the memory contents to reset all the parity
> bits!

That's a matter of the EDAC stuff, not the business of applications.