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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:12:30 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Miklos Szeredi <Miklos.Szeredi@eth.ericsson.se>, Padraig@Linux.ie
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Subject: Re: VIA C3 and random SIGTRAP or segfault
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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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