There is a way to turn off break at SIGILL, at least in mdb, based on the
reading I've done


On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 1:46 PM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote:

> From: Dan Anderson <dan.ander...@oracle.com>
> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:37:10 -0800
>
> > I really don't understand the desire to preserve dead, never-used code
> > in OpenSSL. The SPARC random instruction doesn't exist, OpenSSL never
> > used it and never can use it, but you don't want to remove the check
> > for it. It seems silly to me.
>
> Ok, how about we replace the random instruction detection with an
> explicit forced illegal instruction test early in the sparc init code
> that makes sure the SIGILL facility is working properly?
>
> That is, we'll unconditionally and always generate a SIGILL every time
> openssl is used.
>
> I'm perfectly fine with that, but you guys will be in the same
> position you are now, having to cope with the debugger issue.
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