From: cheekai AT alumni DOT stanford DOT org (Chin Chee Kai) Subject: Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug 8 Nov 1997 23:03:16 -0800 Message-ID: <199711090644.OAA26608.cygnus.gnu-win32@eastgate.cyberway.com.sg> Reply-To: cheekai AT alumni DOT stanford DOT org To: GNU Win32 Just a confirmation on the reported bug. I compiled and executed using user privileges the code on my Intel Pentium MMX 166MHz on Linux 2.0 and, as described by the anonymous mailer, the system froze immediately. Nothing except hard reboot works. I ran the same on an Intel 486/66 on Win95 and got normal illegal instruction trap using either cygnus gcc or VC++. This does sound serious. 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. Chee-Kai Chin PS: To the anonymous poster, if you are reading, thank you very much. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".