Public bug reported:
My CPU does not support SSE2, this is a fact.
And as far as I knew, there was nowhere a *requirement* listed that for the use
of Chromium, a SSE2-capable CPU would be mandatory.
For instance, old(er) Athlon XP machines support SSE, but not SSE2.
I've run a DEBUG build of chromium v41 to demonstrate this fact.
These are the most evident 2 lines:
#
# Fatal error in ../../v8/src/ia32/assembler-ia32.cc, line 82
# CHECK(cpu.has_sse2()) failed
#
Looks to me that the _asm routines _blindly_ assume that the CPU is capable of
SSE2 instruction set.
At least the browser should exit more gracefully if this is the case, but not
crash with a SIGILL.
** Affects: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: assembler chromium cpu crash sse2
** Attachment added: "gdb_chromium.txt"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1437070/+attachment/4357436/+files/gdb_chromium.txt
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chromium-browser crashes with SIGILL if CPU does not support SSE2
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