i386/41398: Illegal instruction Core Dumped

[Kris Kennaway]

The following reply was made to PR i386/41398; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: Stefan Bosse <sbosse at physik.uni-bremen.de>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: i386/41398: Illegal instruction Core Dumped
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 05:09:55 -0700

 On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 05:40:04AM -0700, Stefan Bosse wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR i386/41398; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Stefan Bosse <sbosse at physik.uni-bremen.de>
 > To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, satherrl at dssrg.curtin.edu.au
 > Cc:  
 > Subject: Re: i386/41398: Illegal instruction Core Dumped
 > Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 14:31:56 +0200
 > 
 >  This problem occurs since the 4.6.1-RC2 release. The RC1 release seems 
 >  to be ok. I think all programs of the base system (/bin,/sbin,...) in 
 >  this release are compiled
 >  for P-III (or PII ?) CPU machines. They fail with the 
 >  Illegal-Instruction on PI/PII and AMD K6 CPU machines because
 >  the binaries have illegal instruction (from the view of point of an 
 >  older processor). Arrgghh.
 >  
 >  A nasty fire dragon error. Try the RC1 release.
 
 Does this problem persist on later releases?
 
 Kris