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A comment on Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and writes in kernel memory. Parent comment

Re:Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and ... by testplzignore on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @08:16PM (#16694026)
Ahh, I was using a 32-bit gcc. 64-bit gcc shows it :)

  $ x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc meltdown.c -o meltdown.exe
  $ ./meltdown.exe
  1371183207
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Re:Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and ... by BrianG61UK on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @11:50PM (#16704382)
But can you find a March patch that makes the correct 64 bit version segfault? I can't :-(
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