Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Intel Pentium Bug: BSDI Releases a patch | From | Jan Vroonhof <> | Date | 13 Nov 1997 13:59:16 +0100 |
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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:
> > fault: divide by zero, debugging traps, NMI, into, bound and illegal > > instruction, all others starting at interrupt 7 which is the quite critical > > (FPU context switches) should not experience any performance degradation. > > Yep
So am I correct in understanding that intel will probably escape a multibillion dollar replacement program because the illegal instruction interupt number is lower than the FPU one?
Jan
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