wileyc@rezrov.net said:
> emul_trapsignal(4,4620208d)
> [1]   Illegal instruction (core dumped) ${run} ./try 

I has a perl-5.8.3 build overnight on my pmax. It built well,
and I didn't get the fpemul trapsignal.

So it might be the compiler emitting an invalid opcode on
big-endian only. Since you got a corefile, you might be able
to check...

best regards
Matthias