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Re: VLC on G5 crash : illegal instruction



On 3/8/21 9:38 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> a cursory scan shows no evidence of the use of VSX there.
> 
> If needed... I believe it is possible to disable PCRE2's JIT at configure time.

We certainly shouldn't disable the whole JIT over a single instruction but rather
check whether this instruction can be guarded on older POWER systems.

But we need to find out first which instruction triggers the SIGILL.

Adrian

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