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Bugs due to cache state are absurd. In the classical sense of the word.

When Bruce Dawson investigated a bug in the Xbox 360 cpu, the offending instructions didn't even need to "execute" in order to crash the system.

[0] https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-d...



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