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Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug



On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Scott Warner wrote:
> As a point of curiosity, what is this program supposed to do?  It looks
> like it is assigning a pointer to function to a character array.  Possibly
> for assember instructions?  What is it about the code that crashes a
> Pentium?

The funny array is a way of building an instruction sequence that is 
invalid. The funny assign is to get it to be a pointer to a function. 

ron
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