Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug

[nobody@neva.org (Neva Remailer)]

Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org> wrote:
>There is a SERIOUS bug in all pentium CPUs. The following 
>code will crash any machine running on a pentium CPU, MMX or no 
>MMX, any speed, regardless of OS (crash as in instant seize, hard 
>reboot the only cure):
>
>char x [5] = { 0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8 };
>
>main ()
>{
>       void (*f)() = x;
>       f();
>}
>
>This require no special permissions to run, it works fine with
>average-joe-userspace permissions. I have verified this, it works.
>Demand a new CPU from Intel.

This didn't crash my Pentium.  Hoax?