Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:50:09 -0500 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: Intel vs AMD64 |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com> 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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