From: rminnich AT sarnoff DOT com (Ron G. Minnich)
Subject: Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
10 Nov 1997 09:32:10 -0800
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To: Scott Warner <swarnerx3 AT acadia DOT net>
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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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