Re: SSE related security hole

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:53:12 +0100 (BST)


> > Intel folks are actually saying even back in Pentium MMX days that it isnt
> > guaranteed that the FP/MMX state are not seperate registers
>
> In this case it would be possible to only do the explicit clear
> when the CPU does support sse1. For mmx only it shouldn't be needed.
> For sse2 also not.

Do you have a documentation cite for that claim ?
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