Re: Possible miscompilation issue with floating point operations
On 2016-02-10 14:14, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
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> Dear mips porters,
>
> I attach a C source code that, when compiled with gcc-5, crashes with
> "Illegal instruction" on mips, while it works correctly when compiled
> with gcc-4.9 [tested on minkus.debian.org].
>
> The problem looks like a miscompilation (the code only does some basic
> floating-point operations), but it was pointed out by Julien Cristau
> that it could also be a kernel issue (since floating point instructions
> are emulated on Debian mips hardware).
This is actually a kernel issue, which has been fixed by this patch:
https://git.kernel.org/linus/e4553573b37c3f72533683cb5f3a1ad300b18d37
We are working on getting the fix deployed on the build daemons.
Aurelien
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