Re: Intel vs AMD64

[Timothy Miller]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> Timothy Miller <miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
[snip]

> > Why did Intel decide to do that?
>
>
> Most likely they didn't plan to, but it happened by accident 
> and is obscure enough to be not worth fixing. I would agree with
> them that it's not worth fixing.

Yes, I have come to understand that this is merely a case of Intel 
documenting that an "undocumented" instruction doesn't behave in a 
useful or consistent way.

My apologies for delving into this pointless discussion.

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