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Cute SPARC CPU bug

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles M. Hannum)
Fri Oct 24 19:29:08 1997

Date: 	Fri, 24 Oct 1997 13:42:32 -0400
Reply-To: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@MIT.EDU>
From: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@MIT.EDU>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG

Compile the following:

main(){while(1);}

with `gcc -O' on a SPARC.  You get, roughly:

L1:
        b,a L1
        retl

Run it on a SS5/170.  Notice the machine is completely wedged.
Power-cycle it.

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