> The PII and the like have two ways of handling failures the chip detects. THe
> default behaviour is a shutdown cycle, a reboot. The optional behaviour is
> to take a machine check exception (ie an 'oh shit' trap). That lets you
> find out what exploded and will report stuff like cache parity errors
Even Pentium CPUs have a limited MCE feature.
-- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
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