Re: VLC on G5 crash : illegal instruction

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>]

On Sunday, March 7, 2021, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:.
> the issue is most probably in libpcre2 or Qt5Core
>
> #0  0x00007fffe9c5fa30 in ?? ()
> #1  0x00007ffff02c406c in ?? () from /usr/lib/powerpc64-linux-gnu/libpcre2-16.so.0

https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2/code/trunk/src/sljit/sljitNativePPC_common.c?revision=1268&view=markup

*splutter* but... but... wow! that's amazing.  pcre2 contains a JIT assembly compiler simply for the purposes of generating highly optimised regular _expression_ parsing.

holy cow :)

chances are then that an instruction was added which is assumed to exist in OpenPOWER v3.0 but is not present in v2.06 (etc)

a cursory scan shows no evidence of the use of VSX there.

l.

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