#2972: ppc ghci segfaults at startup
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Reporter: cemeyer | Owner: erikd
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: _|_
Component: GHCi | Version: 7.0.3
Keywords: | Os: Linux
Architecture: powerpc | Failure: GHCi crash
Difficulty: Unknown | Testcase:
Blockedby: | Blocking:
Related: |
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Comment(by erikd):
There was a message to the Debian bug tracker on this issue that suggested
that GHCi did work on some machines. See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631073#59
Thinking that this might be a difference between 64 bit G5 CPUs and
earlier CPUs I managed to track down a G3 iBook (500MHz G3 CPU, 256MB RAM)
and tested both the ghc-7.2.2 release and current Git HEAD on this
machine.
In both cases, GHCi seems to work flawlessly.
The differences between these CPUs are is that the G5 is actually a 64 bit
CPU (running a 64 bit kernel and a 32 bit user space) while the G3 is is
32 bits. Also, the G5 has Altivec vector instructions while the G3 does
not.
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