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From: vinoski@apollo.HP.COM (Stephen Vinoski)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Crash a RISC machine from user-mode code:
Keywords: RISC
Message-ID: <4c33cff2.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Aug 90 22:55:00 GMT
References: <1826@mountn.dec.com> <C:25L+@xds13.ferranti.com>
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Apollo Division; Chelmsford, MA
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In article <1826@mountn.dec.com> akhiani@ricks.enet.dec.com (Homayoon Akhiani) writes:
> OK. Here is a quick summary of the HOW TO CRASH A RISC machine from
> a USER-MODE program test. Reports have arrived that all of these machines
> can be crashed using CRASHME.C:
> IBM RT, MIPS, DECSTATION 5000, SPARC.

> On the two CISC architectures tried, VAX/VMS and SUN-3, the program
> either completed or exited with a core or register dump, as expected.

The HP/Apollo Series 10000 machines do not crash; rather, the crashme process
dies with an "unimplemented instruction" fault.


-steve


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