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Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
- From: Bryon Roche <broche at bensonlaw dot com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 17:56:57 -0600
- References: <199711102337.SAA11324@p2.acadia.net>
Scott Warner wrote:
>
> So, the Pentium *should* recognize the instruction as illegal and crash the
> program, but instead the program crashes the OS? However did this get
> discovered, and are there more instances? It occurs to me that no
> processor is safe from these kinds of things.
It should do this, but it doesn't. There may or may not be more
instances of this, but you know Intel...
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