Subject: Re: Missing some floating point function?
To: None <port-cobalt@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 10/16/2004 18:37:46
In article <16752.63376.362622.949196@mogli.lke.rad.klinikum.rwth-aachen.de>,
Markus W Kilbinger <kilbi@rad.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I just tried to compile perl58 via pkgsrc on my qube 2 (running
>-current kernel and userland):
>
>  ===> Checking for vulnerabilities in perl-5.8.4nb1
>  => Checksum OK for perl-5.8.4.tar.bz2.
>  ===> Extracting for perl-5.8.4nb1
>  ===> Patching for perl-5.8.4nb1
>  ===> Applying pkgsrc patches for perl-5.8.4nb1
>  [...]
>  You have to use setpgrp(pid,pgrp) instead of setpgrp().
>  bzero() found.
>  You have void (*signal())().
>  Checking whether your C compiler can cast large floats to int32.
>
>This last test panics the kernel reproduceablely:
>
>  trap: TLB miss (load or instr. fetch) in kernel mode
>  status=0x20007c03, cause=0x8, epc=0x8019514c, vaddr=0x4
>  pid=8414 cmd=try usp=0x7fffd068 ksp=0xc870be00
>  Stopped in pid 8414.1 (try) at  netbsd:trapsignal+0x2c: lw      v0,0(a1)
>  db> bt
>  trapsignal+2c (8e65fcf8,4,4620010d,80243800) ra 800016ac sz 64
>  MachFPTrap+cc (8e65fcf8,4,4620010d,80243800) ra 8023b3a4 sz 24
>  8023acc4+6e0 (8e65fcf8,4,4620010d,80243800) ra 0 sz 0
>  User-level: pid 8414.1
>  db> ps
>   PID           PPID     PGRP        UID S   FLAGS LWPS         
>COMMAND    WAIT
>  >8414         25684     9563          0 2  0x4002    1              try
>
>Is there a fp function/handling missing (kernel, libm?)? Is this a gcc
>problem/bug?
>

Looks like a NULL pointer (NULL+0x4) dereference bug.

christos