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To: MichaelW who wrote (39849)	11/10/1997 3:48:00 PM
From: vip	Respond to of 186894

Intel Corp. (INTC) 75 1/2 -1 15/16: --UPDATE-- chip maker says flaw found only in Pentium chip, not in newer lines of processors...

To: MichaelW who wrote (39849)	11/10/1997 4:17:00 PM
From: Michael Suleski	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

I just broke down and had to see for myself. I compiled the following code to execute the "invalid instruction": unsigned char x[5] = {0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8, 0} main() void (f)() = (void ()())x; } I ran this under both Windows95 and Windows NT 4.0 on Pentium systems without any problems. What bug? This same code example is posted all over the news groups. I tested this on several machines with none of the reported problems. (ie; halt, crash, etc.)