From: rminnich@sarnoff.com (Ron G. Minnich) Subject: Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug 10 Nov 1997 09:32:10 -0800 Message-ID: References: <199711091248.HAA29549@p2.acadia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Scott Warner Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Scott Warner wrote: > As a point of curiosity, what is this program supposed to do? It looks > like it is assigning a pointer to function to a character array. Possibly > for assember instructions? What is it about the code that crashes a > Pentium? The funny array is a way of building an instruction sequence that is invalid. The funny assign is to get it to be a pointer to a function. ron - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".