Have you ever wondered what a frequency histogram of nibbles in a dump of an uncompressed Itanium Linux kernel image is? Well, wonder no more
0x0 6175200 37.0% ******************************************************* 0x1 1612596 9.7% *************** 0x2 1261945 7.6% ************ 0x3 632509 3.8% ****** 0x4 1098759 6.6% ********** 0x5 590878 3.5% ****** 0x6 753510 4.5% ******* 0x7 576100 3.4% ****** 0x8 1194081 7.1% *********** 0x9 462349 2.8% ***** 0xa 408003 2.4% **** 0xb 275851 1.7% *** 0xc 439190 2.6% **** 0xd 263658 1.6% *** 0xe 353211 2.1% **** 0xf 607788 3.6% ******
I swear I was not procrastinating when I came up with this; I was (am) trying to find a bug where I get a totally crap value in a register, and I wondered if that value was somehow being pulled out of the kernel code.