Re: Checking if processor honours the WP ... Stops the computer

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Wed, 2 Jul 1997 11:39:40 +0200


Hi,

> I think the patch is wrong, the jump should be before the memory references!

I'm not sure it's wrong, but also not sure it isn't. It's a kludge
attempting to circumvent several unknown CPU bugs. On some machines,
the jump _after_ the accesses helps, maybe doing a jump _before_
them would help in some other cases. Probably we should test both
possibilities, but as we don't know what's happening here, neither
way seems to be wrong.

Have a nice fortnight

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@gts.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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