Bug#1005863: gcc-11: invalid opcode for Geode LX on i386
On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 11:47:21PM +0000, James Addison wrote:
> Package: gcc-11
> Followup-For: Bug #1005863
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-gcc@lists.debian.org, debian-release@lists.debian.org, debian-policy@lists.debian.org
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Bug #1005863 describes a gcc-11 behaviour that results in software that exits
> ungracefully on Geode LX i686 hardware. Despite self-reporting as i586
> sometimes, Geode LX is in fact an i686 CPU (without physical address extensions
> and multi-instruction noops -- both optional per spec).
>
> My assessment -- which may be incorrect -- is that something like 20% of
> packages in the bookworm i386 suite are susceptible to the bug, so I think that
> installing bookworm on a Geode LX system would present users with a poor
> experience of Debian.
>
> Would it be fair to raise the severity of this bug to a release-critical
> level?
>From a purely engineering perspective, without a way to address this problem,
increasing the severity will not achieve much.
Instead this should be documented in the release notes, with any relevant information.
However, the fact that the the CPU is 15 year old is not a sufficient rationale
to stop supporting it. It is more useful for debian-i386 to focus on CPUs that
cannot run debian-amd64 than on CPUs that can.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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