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Interestingly, they have the OpenBSD version that does word-size assignments in asm for x86/arm. wonder why it wasn't being used.

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It was. That's why this bug hasn't been caught before: the buggy code was never actually compiled as part of a production build. Real builds always use the version optimized for the actual hardware platform.

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