New, fundamental Intel Pentium flaw?

Robert S. Thau (rst@ai.mit.edu)
Mon, 10 Nov 1997 17:16:12 -0500 (EST)


Rohit Khare writes:
> This is bad C code, but that's NO excuse for it to crash out a chip.
> This *can't* have been in there all along, could it? Shit!

BTW, as a footnote, the following C code not only exhibits the same
behavior:

long main=0xc8c70ff0;

but also gets past gcc -ansi -pedantic, making it arguably "good
code".

rst