Cute SPARC CPU bug

Charles M. Hannum (mycroft@MIT.EDU)
Fri, 24 Oct 1997 13:42:32 -0400 

Compile the following:

main(){while(1);}

with `gcc -O' on a SPARC.  You get, roughly:

L1:
        b,a L1
        retl

Run it on a SS5/170.  Notice the machine is completely wedged.
Power-cycle it.