Hacking Into A CPU’s Microcode (2017)

Lobsters·8 points·bitfield·over 1 year ago·hackaday.com

Inside every modern CPU since the Intel Pentium fdiv bug, assembly instructions aren’t a one-to-one mapping to what the CPU actually does. Inside the CPU, there is a decoder that turns assemb…

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