https://computer.howstuffworks.com/lan-switch13.htm
This may explain to you how a broadcast can be generated unintentionally and this will not happen on a converged STP topology. On a converged STP it can be a DOS kind of attack using crafted ARP packets to chock the BW of intended gateway of host.
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