Re: VIA C3 and random SIGTRAP or segfault

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Wed Jan 15 2003 - 11:12:30 EST

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On Wed, Jan 15 2003, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>
> > segfault is what I saw. Something seems to be corrupted (by a cmov
> > SIGILL?) and from then the app will crash in the same
> > (arbitrary) place until the machine is restarted. Some apps
> > are more susceptible than others. Note a Samuel II would work fine?
>
> Do you mean that after a cmov is encountered other applications will
> also randomly crash? That would explain what I've been seeing.

No, it will SIGILL immediately.

-- Jens Axboe

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