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How Control Flow Guard Caused Windows 8.1 Address Space and Behavior Changes (alex-ionescu.com)
42 points by DiabloD3 on Jan 24, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


I think MS does mention CMPXCHG16B as part of the system requirements for Win8.1. This affected the older DDR1 K8 CPUs (before mid-2006) the most. I wonder if adding 16-byte atomic operation support required HyperTransport protocol changes.


Actually, AMD basically forgot to implement the instruction. It was in the manuals.


Citation?




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