Secret debugger discovered in AMD CPUs

theregister.co.uk

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Wonder if there is any significance to 9C5A203A.

no idea...

ascii... œ Z <SPC> : decimal... 156 90 32 58 binary... 10011100 01011010 00100000 00111010 octal... 0234 0132 040 072

It's a secret value that puts AMD processors into an undocumented debug mode.