Comment by walterbell

9 years ago

Does this affect execution of Ocaml runtime, or only the Ocaml compiler?

It affects code generated by the OCaml native compiler, which includes the OCaml compiler itself since it is written in OCaml. See also: https://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=7452

It also affects code generated by GCC, but apparently GCC is less likely to generate code sequences which trigger the CPU bug.

It seems like everything that uses less than 64 instructions in a loop while using the AH, BH, CH or DH registers is affected.