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To: Paul Engel who wrote (25766)11/10/1997 3:14:00 AM
From: Joe NYC  Respond to of 1579927
 
Petz - Re: " Who's to say this bit pattern isn't the middle bytes of some floating point number sitting in memory that accidentally gets jumped to by a buggy program"

Conclusion: Buggy Code is OK.


No. A buggy code running on bug free processor can crash it's own process. The system stays alive. You get a GPF message or something like that.

With this processor bug, the buggy code will bring down the whole system.

Joe