From: broche@bensonlaw.com (Bryon Roche) Subject: Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug 10 Nov 1997 20:11:45 -0800 Message-ID: <34679F49.1C135609.cygnus.gnu-win32@bensonlaw.com> References: <199711102337.SAA11324@p2.acadia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" 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... -- /---------------------------\ |Bryon Roche | |mailto:broche@bensonlaw.com| \---------------------------/ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".