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Bug#231538: libc6: illegal instruction on a 386



Karolina Lindqvist writes:
> lördagen den 7 februari 2004 18.01 you wrote:
> > This is not a bug, i386 support is dropped, gcc is configured to
> > generate code for i486 and up. IIRC the kernel binaries for i386 do
> > have a patch for emulation support for non-i386 instructions.
> 
> So it's not a bug, but a feature. I could have gussed that. It would be 
> helpful if libc6, or something, actually had a Depend on the required kernel 
> version. 
> I am running a vanilla debian kernel,  2.4.18-1-386 version 2.4.18.12-1, on 
> that machine, which obviously is not enough. 
> The corresponding kernel from sid is called
> 2.4.18-386 version 2.4.18-5. Will it solve the problem?
> Confusing.

don't know about the exact kernel package...

maybe the report should be kept open to document forht release, that
sun4c, armv? and i386 arre not supported anymore.



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