sajjad.akhtar wrote:

>      No its not a bug anyway. Your statment
>         void (*f)() = x;
>      does two things 1. declares a function pinter and then assing it the
>      value of x.
>      As x is not a funcition point rather an char pointer so it is type
>      promoted.

Irrelevant, how we get the instructions to the CPU doesn't matter.

>  And this method has some uses in pc enviornment i think it
>      can have some uses in the PIC enviorment too. as in the PIC your
>      strings are stored in the code area.
>
>      anyway its not a bug.

Nobody is saying it is a C bug.  It is a pentium bug.  If I can run a
set of instructions that lock up a multiuser system then there is a bug.
If it is something that cannot be caught by any OS, and affects only
Pentium chips, it is a bug in the CPU.

Userland is not supposed to be able to lock up the machine.  If I wrote
it in assembly the same thing would happen.  It is a major bug.

Roger