Known hardware bugs.

ferriere@gr.osf.org (Francois de Ferriere)
Wed, 20 Jan 1993 15:09:08 GMT

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From: ferriere@gr.osf.org (Francois de Ferriere)
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 15:09:08 GMT
Keywords: architecture, debug, comment

I'm looking for known hardware bugs.
For example, I heard that on intel i286, MININT / MININT
raised an overflow.
I'm looking for this information in order to write test cases
for compilers.


  - Francois.
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Francois de Ferriere, OSF-RI, 2 Avenue de Vignate, 38610 Gieres, France
ferriere@gr.osf.org
[Chip makers often consider this to be top secret proprietary stuff, although
it eventually leaks out as users find the bugs on their own. -John]
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