Re: New Intel Pentium bug? (fwd)

Giray Devlet (giray@yeditepe.edu.tr)
Fri, 14 Nov 1997 09:31:29 +0200 (EET)

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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 13:17:35 +1030
From: Matthew Tippett <matthew.tippett@dsto.defence.gov.au>
To: Malcolm Herbert <mjch@boojum.bf.rmit.edu.au>
Cc: f.debruijn@bhtafe.edu.au,
Melbourne Linux Mailing List <melblinux@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>
Subject: Re: New Intel Pentium bug?

Malcolm Herbert wrote:
>
> > Dr.Dobb's Journal August 1997 has an artical " inside the pentuim II
> > math bug by RobertR. Collins -rcollins@x86.org" and included on the accompanying CD
> > is a programme (FISTBUG.EXE plus source code) to test for
> > the bug on your system.
>
> Which company publishes this? I wouldn't mind having a look at a website
> with it on ...

>From what I remember, this bug is pretty harmless, unless you are using the maths
that it relies on.

For a good Intel bug site, check out http://www.x86.org

Matt

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