Re: Stops Pentiums dead (and how does Cyrix perform?)

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Sun, 9 Nov 1997 22:55:03 -0500 (EST)

On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, linux kernel account wrote:

>
> Make you could go a step further, when it traps, it could analyze the
> offending code and compair it to a comprehensive table of 'bad opcodes'
> and decided to fail on not..

Absolutely. It only has to check one byte as a fixed offset.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Richard B. Johnson
Project Engineer
Analogic Corporation
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