On 11 February 2016 at 10:47, Sébastien Villemot wrote: | Le jeudi 11 février 2016 à 09:11 +0100, Aurelien Jarno a écrit : | > On 2016-02-10 14:14, Sébastien Villemot wrote: | > > [Please Cc me on replies, I'm not subscribed to the list] | > > | > > Dear mips porters, | > > | > > I attach a C source code that, when compiled with gcc-5, crashes with | > > "Illegal instruction" on mips, while it works correctly when compiled | > > with gcc-4.9 [tested on minkus.debian.org]. | > > | > > The problem looks like a miscompilation (the code only does some basic | > > floating-point operations), but it was pointed out by Julien Cristau | > > that it could also be a kernel issue (since floating point instructions | > > are emulated on Debian mips hardware). | > | > This is actually a kernel issue, which has been fixed by this patch: | > | > https://git.kernel.org/linus/e4553573b37c3f72533683cb5f3a1ad300b18d37 | > | > We are working on getting the fix deployed on the build daemons. | | Great, thanks for your feedback and for your work on this. | | If possible, please keep me (and Dirk in cc) informed about the | resolution of this issue (or is there a bug open?).
Big thank you to both of you (and the mips porters) to keep this moving forward. Much appreciated. Dirk | -- | .''`. Sébastien Villemot | : :' : Debian Developer | `. `' http://sebastien.villemot.name | `- GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594 -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]
