Crash a RISC machine from user-mode code:

Paul Gootherts pdg at hpcupt1.HP.COM
Thu Aug 16 03:25:20 AEST 1990


I tried this on an HP9000 Series 800 Model 835 (a PA-RISC machine) and
it did not crash.  The program got an "Illegal Instruction" and dumped
core, but nothing worse happened (I ran the program several times).

Paul Gootherts
Hewlett-Packard Co
Internet: pdg at hpda.hp.com
UUCP: {hplabs,ucbvax}!hpda!pdg



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