Re: Pentium DEATH in user-mode

Andre Derrick Balsa (andrewbalsa@usa.net)
Sat, 08 Nov 1997 16:04:11 +0100


Hi,

Greg Alexander wrote:
>
> On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Andre Derrick Balsa wrote:
>
> > The instructions are correctly trapped as illegal instructions on both
> > the Cyrix 6x86L and 6x86MX processors. I haven't tested the original
> > 6x86 but it should do OK too.
> >
> > Cyrix: 1, Intel: -0.000712765430978 ;-)
>
> Run the program to search all of the ops (modify it to have it search all
> 32-bits of 'em) and see if that'll crash the cyrix.
>
Done it already. No problems. :-)

Cyrix: 2^32, Intel: -0.000712765430978 ;-)
Cheers

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