The Cyrix coma bug is a design flaw in Cyrix 6x86 (introduced in 1996), 6x86L, and early 6x86MX processors that allows a non-privileged program to hang the computer.
The Cyrixcomabug is a design flaw in Cyrix 6x86 (introduced in 1996), 6x86L, and early 6x86MX processors that allows a non-privileged program to hang...
in an infinite loop to create a denial of service attack, as in the Cyrixcomabug. The C standard and SUSv3 provide sig_atomic_t for simple atomic reads...
sometimes used to describe similar hardware design flaws such as the Cyrixcomabug. No permanent hardware damage results from executing the F00F instruction...
renders portions of ordinary instructions uninterruptible too. The Cyrixcomabug would hang a single-core system using an infinite loop in which an uninterruptible...
or the processor may be in an uninterruptible state, such as in the Cyrixcomabug (caused by overlapping uninterruptible instructions in an instruction...
of the Intel Pentium. On the Cyrix 5x86 and 6x86 CPUs, CPUID is not enabled by default and must be enabled through a Cyrix configuration register. On NexGen...
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