illegal_instruction_error

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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:34:58 -0800
To: svlug@svlug.org
Subject: Re: [svlug] HELP i have a broken VA system
From: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com>

begin  hvrietsc@yahoo.com quotation:

> I get the following messages:
> 
> GenuineIntel cpu detected.
> Katmai cpu detected.
> Illegal instruction

"Illegal instruction", if memory serves, _usually_ means the binary was
compiled for some other CPU's instruction set.  E.g., you compiled
something with the -mpentiumpro switch and tried to run it on a PII or
K6, or you ran a binary that uses Motorola 68k FPU instructions on one
of those infamously buggy 68LC040 CPUs.  

Sometimes Netscape coredumps with one of those errors, too -- which 
doesn't mean it was compiled with the wrong CPU instruction set, but
rather that it's bug-infested. ;->

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