Greg Earle wrote:

>So Neil and Matthew confirmed that netscape 2.0beta2 breaks SUNOS_COMPAT even
>on -current.  Sigh.

>What now?  How do you debug these kinds of problems?  We don't have an "adb",
>much less an "adb" for running SunOS binaries under.

>The thing that worries me is that this mystery instruction will probably
>remain in the Netscape 2.0 releases, right up to & including the final
>release.  Unless it gets found.  Arrggh.

>I'm willing to put some sweat into it, if I only knew where to start.  All
>"kdump" tells us is that it croaks, which I already knew.  :-)

Just a guess, maybe the binary uses SPARC-V8-specific instructions?
Integer divide/mul is captured in SunOS/Solaris Kernels and emulated
in software. Do we have this in NetBSD?

Martin
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