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He named the website after the compare and exchange instruction ???. My intel assembler is rather rusty.
by tibbydudeza 4y ago
He named the website after the compare and exchange instruction ???.
My intel assembler is rather rusty.
- lapsis_beeftech 4y agoIt is explained in the FAQ: There was a bug in early Pentiums called the f00f bug, it would cause a deadlock if you provided an invalid operand to cmpxchg8b while using the lock prefix. It was an important vulnerability at the time, and I thought it would be fun to own lock.cmpxchg8b.com.