Re: Pentium error
Carey Evans writes:
> There was a Perl script posted to BugTraq that would search for the f00f
> opcodes in a program, and a C program that wouldn't get noticed but would
> crash anyway.
You would have to scan all memory that is both writable and executable as
well as the text pages to defend against self-modifying code. Not worth
it. The Intel workaround is better.
Is anyone working on a Debian package for the patch?
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