"The customer reported that this code “worked just fine on 32-bit x86 and 64-bit x86”, but it doesn’t work on Itanium."
"Actually, I’m surprised that it worked even on x86!"
And that is probably how Spectre and Meltdown were found!
Differences in the cpu's.
"The customer reported that this code “worked just fine on 32-bit x86 and 64-bit x86”, but it doesn’t work on Itanium."
"Actually, I’m surprised that it worked even on x86!"
And that is probably how Spectre and Meltdown were found!
Differences in the cpu's.