MaverickCrunch

It was first presented by Cirrus Logic in June 2000[1] together with an ARM920T integer processor in their 200 MHz EP9302, EP9307, EP9312, and EP9315 System-on-Chip integrated circuits.

Plagued with hardware bugs and poor compiler support,[citation needed] it was seldom used in any of the devices based on those chips and the product line was discontinued on April 1, 2008.

Five versions of the EP93xx silicon were issued: "D0" and "D1"/"E0"/"E1" and "E2", with major revisions to the MaverickCrunch core between D0 and D1 to fix its worst bugs.

All have a dozen or more hardware bugs which either give imprecise or garbage results or clobber registers or memory when certain sequences of instructions are executed in a certain order.

A set of patches was submitted to the GNU Compiler Collection by Red Hat/Cygnus Solutions in 2003 to include a code generator for it, complete with flags to work around its defects.