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SubjectRe: Intel vs AMD64


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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