Re: 1.2.13 __generic_memcpy_tofs cures crashes

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Tue, 9 Apr 1996 09:42:21 +0100 (BST)

> movsl", on the assumption that the interlock problem is between the
> shift/movsl instruction (but that's unlikely: that particular
> combination shows up even in normal code). That would be:

Actually Linus take a look at the pentium errata for some steppings. Im
sure one of the early 100MHz parts had a bug for something like rep movs*
instructions taking a path that was out of spec under a few conditions.
I'll look it up tonight.

So maybe the cyrix has a similar oops ;)

Alan