From: yas@oberon.csse.swin.edu.au (Y. Ahmet Sekercioglu) Subject: Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug --> PentiumPRO seems OK 10 Nov 1997 23:21:53 -0800 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Chin Chee Kai , GNU Win32 On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, John Mamer wrote: > I tried the code on my 300Mhz Pentium II machine (MMX). I > compiled under gcc (gnu-wn32). The OS caught the problem > and terminated the program without crashing. It gave me a > dialog box containing the statement: > [snip] > > I'm also seriously in need of a confirmation as to whether the same > > piece of code affects Pentium Pro machines. Has anyone tried it > > out yet? Please post directly to me if you may as it may digress > > from the Cyginw-gnu discussions although the Intel bug report is > > serious. We have tried here on a Pentium Pro, it has successfully caught the problem. It seems that PentiumPro CPUs are OK. We have tried on a couple of Pentiums, they have been frozen. ===Y. Ahmet Sekercioglu (ASekerci@swin.edu.au)=====IP phone:============ School of Information Technology yas.csse.swin.edu.au Swinburne University of Technology tel: +61-3-92148942 ===PO Box 218, Hawthorn, 3122 Vic. Australia=======fax: +61-3-98190823== - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".