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Re:Rust's unsafe pointer types need an overhaul by flohofwoe on Sunday March 20, 2022 @06:53AM (#30741630)
The Intel 8080 and Z80 had conditional call instructions. Don't know why x86 didn't deem them important enough to drag them along though.
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Re:Rust's unsafe pointer types need an overhaul by hyperman1 on Sunday March 20, 2022 @12:14PM (#30743910)
x86 had INTO, interrupt when overflow, which basically gave this functionality. It would allow software to treat an overflow basically like a segmentation violation.

It never saw much use, and got removed in x64.

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