From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 6 09:00:45 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA02407 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 09:00:45 -0800 Received: from gandalf.me.ksu.edu (root@gandalf.me.ksu.edu [129.130.41.86]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA02401 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 09:00:41 -0800 Received: from bilbo.me.ksu.edu (joed@bilbo.me.ksu.edu [129.130.41.87]) by gandalf.me.ksu.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA05869 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 11:00:25 -0600 Received: (from joed@localhost) by bilbo.me.ksu.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA23113 for hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 10:58:12 -0600 From: Joe Diehl Message-Id: <199511061658.KAA23113@bilbo.me.ksu.edu> Subject: Re: Pentium BUG To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 10:58:12 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: <199511061634.KAA23017@bilbo.me.ksu.edu> from "Joe Diehl" at Nov 6, 95 10:34:37 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Joe Diehl wrote: > > > Here's a small little program to test for the bug: <... snip...> > Here is the sig of the guy who either wrote the code or posted the code > without any credit given to the author... <... snip ...> Correction, I just found this bit of text in his message about the source of the FDIV checker: /* I got the above from the "TCPLUS" list (a list about C and C++ programing). I'm not sure but you may be able to use the Windows Calculator or QBASIC to do the same but I don't know how. REMEMBER: it only occurs with certain bit patterns. Sorry for the mistake... :-( --- Joe Diehl Engineering Computing Center Kansas State University