On Tue, Jun 09, 2026 at 07:43:35PM -0700, Andrew Hewus Fresh wrote: > On Sun, Jun 07, 2026 at 11:48:48AM +0200, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote: > > >Synopsis: perl is broken in i386 -current > > >Category: perl > > >Environment: > > System : OpenBSD 7.9 > > Details : OpenBSD 7.9-current (GENERIC.MP) #427: Sun Jun 7 > > 00:54:31 MDT 2026 > > > > [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP > > > > Architecture: OpenBSD.i386 > > Machine : i386 > > >Description: > > Attemtp to use perl in clean i386 VM leads to: > > panic: Unexpectedly didn't find a dot radix character in '0.b41000000' > > at - line 1. > > >How-To-Repeat: > > Like that: > > > > obsd-i386$ perl > > use v5.36; > > panic: Unexpectedly didn't find a dot radix character in > > '0.b41000000' at - line 1. > > obsd-i386$ > > good news? I can reproduce this when running OpenBSD under qemu. > > $ cat /var/db/installed.BUILDINFO > Build date: 1781034346 - Tue Jun 9 19:45:46 UTC 2026 > > I don't really know anything about qemu though, I didn't even figure out > how to get it connected to the Internet in the few minutes I spent > looking. I am not sure when I will have time to look at this any > further. > > Booting the same image with qemu-system-x86_64 instead of > qemu-system-i386 does exhibit the same behavior.
Booting the same image under vmm(4) does not crash. I recommend using a different hypervisor.
