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Re: [Qemu-devel] FXSAVE doesn't #GP on alignment error
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Michal Schulz |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] FXSAVE doesn't #GP on alignment error |
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Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:20:36 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> I am not sure if this should be treated as an error or not (it
> definitely isn't critical), but I'll post it as an extra information
> if it is useful or you think it should be fixed.
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> According to Intel manuals, the FXSAVE instruction requires the
> argument to be 16-byte aligned. On a real machine, violating this
> constraint results in a #GP. From experience, qemu will not enforce
> this alignment constraint.
+1 from me.
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Michal Schulz