You mean the Pentium FDIV bug.
As long Windows works on old Pentiums and the tools and runtime support
targeting such, we are stuck with that.
AMD64 and IA64 are free of it of course.
- Jay
on 2/12/06 12:03 PM, email@hidden at
email@hidden wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:20:20 -0700
> From: Doug McNutt
> Subject: Re: Intel/PPC - Performance Maybe OT
> To: email@hidden
>
> At 13:36 -0500 2/11/06, Farokh Irani wrote:
>> I recall once, a long time ago, when I reported a floating point bug to
>> Microsoft, including source for an application that would show the error, I
>> was told that they could not reproduce the bug . . .
>
> I can remember an Intel hardware floating point bug that affected peecees.
> Probably a bit before 2000. There were software fixes for it that became part
> of Windoze.
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