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SubjectRe: F00F-bug workaround working?
At 11:11 PM 1/13/2002 +0000, James Stevenson wrote:


>the foof bug would cause the system to hang. not to panic.
>

If I'm not mistaken (and I probably am), the F00F bug causes the proc to
screw up the handling of an invalid instruction. I.E. no legitimate
program would possibly cause this, only hand-written bytecode (or,
theoretically, a stack overflow overwriting a return address to point to
data) can cause this.

So unless someone's trying to mess with you, I doubt F00F is affecting you.

http://x86.ddj.com/errata/dec97/f00fbug.htm




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