[fpc-pascal] FPC compiled program stops with SIGILL on newer hardware (Pentium M 800 MHz)

[Florian Klaempfl]

Dirk Verwiebe schrieb:
> Hello Florian,
> 
> exception handling was the problem.I have removed the dpmiexcp unit and
> now it works again.

Well, this is only a workaround. In 6762 I tried to fix dpmiexcp, can
you test if this works for you?

> Thank you very much !!!!
> 
> regards
> 
> Dirk
> 
> Florian Klaempfl schrieb:
>> Dirk Verwiebe schrieb:
>>> Thank you very much for your quick reply.
>>> Maybe you are right,but i have forgotten to write my program works
>>> without the cpu unit, and the cpu unit works without my program.
>>> It is a curios situation.
>> Do you "mess" with exception/signal/interrupt handling? The cpu unit has
>> to test SSE support of the OS by executing an sse instruction, if the OS
>> doesn't support SSE one gets indeed a SIG_ILL but it should be catched
>> by the cpu unit.
>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>> Dirk
>>>
>>>
>>> Daniël Mantione schrieb:
>>>> Op Fri, 9 Mar 2007, schreef Dirk Verwiebe:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> my program, written ca 5 years ago which worked all the time on several
>>>>> hardware plattforms(486,AMD 64 ,Celeron 433)
>>>>> crashs with a SIGILL error on my new Pentium M Board.
>>>>> The program was compiled with debug information and so i can see it
>>>>> stops if it in function getcpuinfo and cpu_init
>>>>> in the cpu unit from Thomas Schatzl.
>>>>> But when i write a small test program which uses the same functions of
>>>>> the unit,too it works without problems.
>>>>> How can i found out where the problems comes from and how can i solve it ?
>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>> It sounds like some kind of cpu instruction is no longer supported on the 
>>>> Pentium M. You need to find out what instruction it is. Execute it in gdb 
>>>> and check on which instruction it stops. 
>>>>
>>>> Daniël
>>>>
>>>>
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