Re: Pentium DEATH in user-mode

Andre Derrick Balsa (andrewbalsa@usa.net)
Sat, 08 Nov 1997 17:23:07 +0100


Hummm,

make that all 16 bits of 'em below.

32 bits would take a little longer :-)

BTW these are c[2] and c[3] in Richard Johnson's program.

Andre Derrick Balsa wrote:
>
> 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 ;-)

and make that 2^16.
Cheers,

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