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Article #963test for The Pentium BUG
From: Don Whiteside
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 1994 02:39
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 1994 02:39
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In article <afarkas.39.0@umich.edu>, <afarkas@umich.edu> writes:
> just curoius -- has intel fixed this error with subsequent pentiums,
> or are they still shipping 'em with this bug?
Anyone who wants to test their machine can compile this, according to
the folks on comp...386bsd. However, you will need to compile it with
mathco support set to on, else the compiler will create floating point
routines in software
>#include <stdio.h>
>
>int main()
>{
> double x,y,z;
>
> x = 4195835.0;
> y = 3145727.0;
> z = x - (x / y) * y;
> printf("%f\n",z);
> return 0;
>}
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