Re: bin/53532: ftp(1) dumps core while trying to download via HTTP with the auto-fetch feature

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/53532; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/53532: ftp(1) dumps core while trying to download via HTTP
 with the auto-fetch feature
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 00:34:12 -0400

 On Thu, 2018-08-16 at 22:20 -0400, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
 > I see there's a reference to MMX. The machine in question is a rather
 > old beast I dragged out to see if it still worked:
 > 
 > cpu0: highest basic info 00000002
 > cpu0: Intel Celeron (Covington) (686-class), 348.96 MHz
 > cpu0: family 0x6 model 0x5 stepping 0x1 (id 0x651)
 > cpu0: features
 > 0x183fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE>
 > cpu0: features 0x183fbff<MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
 > cpu0: I-cache 16KB 32B/line 4-way, D-cache 16KB 32B/line 4-way
 > cpu0: L2 cache 512KB 32B/line 4-way
 > cpu0: ITLB 32 4KB entries 4-way, 2 4MB entries fully associative
 > cpu0: DTLB 64 4KB entries 4-way, 8 4MB entries 4-way
 > cpu0: Initial APIC ID 0
 > cpu0: Cluster/Package ID 0
 > cpu0: microcode version 0x40, platform ID 0
 
 Hmm, yes, this is a hardware-specific issue. I can't reproduce this
 on 8.0_STABLE/i386 with a more recent AMD Athlon CPU. It seems as if
 libcrypto isn't playing nice with antediluvian CPUs that provide MMX.
 Whether anyone really cares about this, I don't know. Obviously not a
 burning issue.
 
 Dave