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lia64-sim David Mosberger 2 participants 2 messages Aug 7, 2003

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Quoted 3 lines · Peter Chubb

"David" = David Mosberger <[email protected]> writes:

Peter> however, I'd expect that attempting to execute an IA32 Peter> instruction that wasn't implemented would generate an Peter> unimplemented instruction trap to the operating system, not Peter> cause a segfault.

David> I agree the Ski behavior isn't pretty for this case, but I David> suspect we may have to just live with it. AFAIK, nobody David> seriously cares about x86 emulation on Ski, because it's David> woefully incomplete at any rate (well, it may be useful for David> DOS-area programs, but certainly not for x86 Linux programs).

Peter> Yes, well, I was trying to use it to work out how to fix IA32 Peter> coredumps on the IA64 kernel --- curerntly an easy way to Peter> crash 2.6.0 is to run an IA32 program that segfaults.

Hmmh, I think Arun has patches to make ia32 core-dumps work. Arun, can you confirm?

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Quoted 2 lines · David Mosberger

Hmmh, I think Arun has patches to make ia32 core-dumps work. Arun, can you confirm?

I just posted a patch to linux-ia64.

-Arun