Post #3680245
2026-07-08 20:29 UTC
@madcoder@infosec.exchange @ezhes_@mastodon.online it’ll turn out that somewhere there’s code that depends on it having some uArch effect (terminating an issue group or whatever) to work around a silicon bug on some obscure CPU 🤪
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com 2026-07-08 20:40
@steve@discuss.systems @madcoder@infosec.exchange @ezhes_@mastodon.online if your obscure CPU is the 80386, i believe that's exactly how you were supposed to flush the prefetch cache after doing self modifying code crimes back in the day