# Newsletter 44

DevFeed: [Newsletter 44](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/newsletter-44-32910.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/newsletter-44/>)

Published: 2008-08-06T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [ReactOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactos.md>), [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bug.md>), [Filesystems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/filesystems.md>), [floating-point](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/floating-point.md>), [Kernel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kernel.md>), [x86](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/x86.md>), [Arm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/arm.md>), [Assembly](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/assembly.md>), [boot](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/boot.md>)

Tags: [arm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/arm.md>), [assembly](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/assembly.md>), [boot](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/boot.md>), [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bug.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [filesystem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/filesystem.md>), [floating-point](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/floating-point.md>), [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [kernel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kernel.md>), [newsletter](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/newsletter.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [os](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/os.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [reactos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reactos.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>), [x86](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/x86.md>)

## AI overview

ReactOS Newsletter 44 reports a handle-creation crash fix, ongoing filesystem-checking work, kernel-side floating-point changes for Win32 on x86, an appearance at Linuxworld, and progress toward ARM boot support.

## Source excerpt

General Development There was an interesting bug involving handle creation a while back. When creating the 4100th handle, the system would crash. This bug was exposed through VLC and was eventually fixed by Christoph von Wittich. The problem was the result of an incorrect calculation, where the code attempted to access an index higher than 4099 on the first table. Such values are out of bounds and are supposed to be found in the second table and higher.