From: banders AT ECD DOT Rockwell DOT COM (banders) Subject: Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug 9 Nov 1997 14:09:11 -0800 Message-ID: <34662022.45EF.cygnus.gnu-win32@switch.rockwell.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Looks like a joke to me. Seems you're trying to execute an illegal instruction. Humorous in its delivery though! Any assembler types out there want to explain the opcode and why this is funny? Just my $0.02 Bartman Corey Minyard wrote: > > Anonymous writes: > > > > > 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. > > > > I tested it on an Intel Pentium 166 MMX and on a Cyrix 686L 166. It > did lock up the Pentium but the 686 correctly reported an illegal > instruction. I tried it under Linux and NT, So it is not just a > Microsoft OS problem. This does look pretty serious. > > Demand a new CPU? I'm not sure what Intel will do about this one. > > Who is this and how long did you look for this? Perhaps Cyrix > or AMD :-? I think that finding this would be a pretty momentous > thing, I'm not sure I would go anonymous. > > -- > Corey Minyard Internet: minyard AT acm DOT org > Work: minyard AT nortel DOT ca UUCP: minyard AT wf-rch DOT cirr DOT com > - > 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". - 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".