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Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
- To: Wolfram Steinke <wolf at icpdd dot neca dot nec dot com dot au>
- Subject: Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
- From: "Simon A. Crase" <simon at icpdd dot neca dot nec dot com dot au>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 11:58:07 +1100
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Organization: NEC Australia Pty Ltd
- References: <bd419e7c1b91fab7972ea9db074f7676@anon.efga.org>
- Reply-To: simon at icpdd dot neca dot nec dot com dot au
Anonymous wrote:
>
> There is a SERIOUS bug in all pentium CPUs. The following
> code will crash any machine running on a pentium CPU, MMX or no
> MMX, any speed, regardless of OS (crash as in instant seize, hard
> reboot the only cure):
>
> char x [5] = { 0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8 };
>
> main ()
> {
> void (*f)() = x;
> f();
> }
>
> This require no special permissions to run, it works fine with
> average-joe-userspace permissions. I have verified this, it works.
> Demand a new CPU from Intel.
>
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