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AMD Confirms CPU Bug Found By DragonFly BSD's Matt Dillon

Posted by Soulskill on from the it's-not-me-it's-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Matt Dillon of DragonFly BSD just announced that AMD confirmed a CPU bug he found. Matt quotes part of the mail exchange and it looks like 'consecutive back-to-back pops and (near) return instructions can create a condition where the processor incorrectly updates the stack pointer.' The specific manifestations in DragonFly were random segmentation faults under heavy load."

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  1. Re:This isn't nearly as bad as the division bug by Smauler · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was trying to write the first MMORPG using Quick Basic.

    Sounds like the division bug was the least of your problems....