jorisgio

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   by jorisgio 9y ago

   http://gallium.inria.fr/blog/intel-skylake-bug/ another great blogpost on the topic
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   by jorisgio 9y ago

   I'm not really qualified to explain why such a layout was chosen, my understanding of ocaml internal is limited. The header layout is described here : https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/blob/4.04.2/byter
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   by jorisgio 9y ago

   We pondered reporting this directly to GCC too so that they can implement a workaround. But despite the buzz generated by this issue in the press I believe Intel is right in saying that this bug is very unlikely to trigger. They say it can
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   by jorisgio 9y ago

   > Additionally, what I miss in this story is which source code actually produces [...] (this instruction) The post does not indeed make it clear, but the two instructions andb $252, %ah movq %rax, (%rbx) come from the