Crash a RISC machine from user-mode code:

[Stephen Vinoski]

In article <1826 at mountn.dec.com> akhiani at 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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