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Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug --> PentiumPRO seems OK
- Subject: Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug --> PentiumPRO seems OK
- From: "Y. Ahmet Sekercioglu" <yas at oberon dot csse dot swin dot edu dot au>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 15:55:13 +1100 (EST)
- cc: Chin Chee Kai <cheekai at alumni dot stanford dot org>, GNU Win32 <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, John Mamer wrote:
> I tried the code on my 300Mhz Pentium II machine (MMX). I
> compiled under gcc (gnu-wn32). The OS caught the problem
> and terminated the program without crashing. It gave me a
> dialog box containing the statement:
>
[snip]
> > I'm also seriously in need of a confirmation as to whether the same
> > piece of code affects Pentium Pro machines. Has anyone tried it
> > out yet? Please post directly to me if you may as it may digress
> > from the Cyginw-gnu discussions although the Intel bug report is
> > serious.
We have tried here on a Pentium Pro, it has successfully
caught the problem. It seems that PentiumPro CPUs are OK. We have
tried on a couple of Pentiums, they have been frozen.
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