khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages) (08/16/90)
In article <3899@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
..
Some background/motivation. My experience with microcode programming
taught me that some sequences of MICROINSTRUCTIONS could wedge or jam
...
... The *only* way in which you *might* be able to agree with this as being
The misleading title made me miss the potentially useful part of this
discussion. If any of you have floating point code which wedges a
SPARC please email it to me.
I know of no fpcode to accomplish this (sun-spots has had some
mention of a clever way to force csh to do commit some sort of evil,
but csh is hardly an fp application).
SPARCs have interlocks, so there shouldn't be a way to commit some of
the nifty vile acts which have helped cause various microcoders to
burn machines in the lab.
If there are counterexamples, belly up to the bar folks.
Thanks In Advance.
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