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@moritzheiber It looks to me like many people correctly interpreted it. I think modern computers are just very complex and it’s very easy to miss tiny things like that with almost no noticeable bugs.
@swiley do you have a reference?
Also, Intel is known for its shoddy documentation, and I was also mainly playing on the corporate double speak of the press release echoed verbatim in the article ☺️
(It also doesn’t help that this has been as is since roughly the late 80s, without any engineer at Intel (or the respective vendors) ever catching on)
@swiley thanks! I commend both for their diligence 👍
@moritzheiber yes, openbsd wasn’t affected (probably because they tend to pay closer attention to detail) someone from hacker news (apparently the author of “JPC” a Java x86 emulator) thought it was clear and implemented it correctly himself.