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Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
- To: Scott Warner <swarnerx3 at acadia dot net>
- Subject: Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
- From: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich at sarnoff dot com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 11:20:08 -0500 (EST)
- cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot 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
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