On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:10:45AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Now, I could imagine that Intel would select an instruction that didn't
> work on Athlon on purpose, but I really don't think they did. I don't
> have an athlon to test.
>
> It's easy enough to generate a test-program. If the following works,
> you're pretty much guaranteed that it's ok
>
> int main()
> {
> printf("Testing 'rep nop' ... ");
> asm volatile("rep ; nop");
> printf("okey-dokey\n");
> return 0;
> }
>
> (there's not much a "rep nop" _can_ do, after all - the most likely CPU
> extension would be to raise an "Illegal Opcode" fault).
>
Just for the curious, this works on Athlons. :)
BAPper
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