From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: CPU time for Win32 & GNAT
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 17:17:04 GMT
Date: 2001-10-12T17:17:04+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kAFx7.26367$ev2.34975@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: WoDx7.10597$sj3.3583583254@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com
In article <WoDx7.10597$sj3.3583583254@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com>, Pat Rogers
says...
>
>"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
>news:tkDx7.26129$ev2.34679@www.newsranger.com...
>> In article <oyCx7.10592$Lz2.3580572774@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com>, Pat
>Rogers
>> says...
>> >Better yet, why not use the Pentium ReadTimeStampCounter (RDTSC)
>> Is that instruction avalilable in ring 3?
>
>I can't say. (I know I can trust you -- I just don't know! :-)
Well, I've found lots of examples of its use mixed with user calls from various
OS's, so I guess so. Thinking about it, I can't come up with any reason why it
would be a security or stability problem, but then again the bad guys are always
way more creative than I am.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-12 11:21 CPU time for Win32 & GNAT Gautier
2001-10-12 13:50 ` Pat Rogers
2001-10-12 14:43 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-12 14:48 ` Pat Rogers
2001-10-12 17:17 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-10-12 14:36 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-12 18:30 ` Sune Falck
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2001-10-14 19:54 Gautier Write-only-address
2001-10-15 14:33 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-15 9:47 Gautier Write-only-address
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