Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!mips!servitude!rogerk From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Crash a RISC machine from user-mode code: Keywords: RISC Message-ID: <40885@mips.mips.COM> Date: 16 Aug 90 05:47:32 GMT References: <1826@mountn.dec.com> <4c33cff2.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> Sender: news@mips.COM Reply-To: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 13 >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. Prove it. My Mips RS2030 RISCstation cruised through it, repeatedly, and kept running fine. Caught every bogus instruction... -- ROGER B.A. KLORESE MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. phone: +1 408 720-2939 MS 4-02 950 DeGuigne Dr. Sunnyvale, CA 94086 voicemail: +1 408 524-7421 rogerk@mips.COM {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!mips!rogerk "I'm the NLA" "If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle." -Rita Mae Brown