On Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:46:43 +0200, Andrew Hewus Fresh <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >
when you use amd64 host, it works, otherwise it doesn't. Here I suggested a changes to emulators/qemu port which addresses that issue: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=178117056678973&w=2 -- wbr, Kirill
