Re: [Prboom-users] [Prboom-devel] prboom assembly issue on Ubuntu (signal 9)

[Florian S. <flo...@gm...>]

On 12.11.2009, at 12:11, Jon Dowland wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Ubuntu users are reporting a problem with prboom which is
> fixed by passing '--disable-i386-asm'. They get a signal 9.
> There is currently no useful backtrace available.
> 
> I suspect Ubuntu are turning on a gcc flag for compiling
> that Debian aren't, as we don't see the same problem.
> 
> Details at <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375498>
> 
> Any tips on identifying the problem ASM, or should they
> just continue to disable all ASM?

Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.

That sounds like one of the math functions. I would say just disable the ASM functions, we don't gain a lot from them anymore on newer processors.

Regards,
Florian Schulze