What’s the deal with Play Station Portable?

Looks like Linux Application Development by Michael K. Johnson and Erik W. Troan (source: Facebook)

Iirc the issue was that while(true) would be removed while it should be replaced with ret and this caused a bug where the binary would execute next function

But I believe this way of cosmic ray detection would work

volatile bool condition = true;
while(condition) {
}
printf("Cosmic ray detected");