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Vol. 3 6-63
INTERRUPT AND EXCEPTION HANDLING
For the Pentium 4, Intel Xeon, P6 family, and Pentium processors, a program-state
change always accompanies a machine-check exception, and an abort class excep-
tion is generated. For abort exceptions, information about the exception can be
collected from the machine-check MSRs, but the program cannot generally be
restarted.
If the machine-check mechanism is not enabled (the MCE flag in control register CR4
is clear), a machine-check exception causes the processor to enter the shutdown
state.