Re: Invalid Opcode with BBE Lite on AMD64 (Ubuntu 10.10)

solarflow99
2010-07-07T19:44:22Z

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:43 PM, solarflow99 <solarflow99@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Reinhard Karcher
> <reinhard.karcher@gmx.net> wrote:
>> Am 06.07.2010 16:46, schrieb Frederic Herman:
>>>
>>> I have not been able to use dosemu for a long time, through a couple of
>>> versions of Fedora: FC11 and now FC12 with my x64_64 system. I have had
>>> to run my legacy BPI accounting package on a i386 system remotely
>>> through a ssh session to use it.
>>>
>>> I also tried building DosEmu from source, but I had the same op code
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> I also get op code errors, although different ones with the x86_64
>>> system. In my case, the problem may be due to my x86_64 system being an
>>> AMD processor. I don't have an Intel x86_64 system to try to see if it's
>>> the AMD or just an x86_64 memory emulation issue. Is yours an AMD or an
>>> Intel?
>>>
>>
>> There were some errors in the emulation code, even in the latest revsion of
>> dosemu. All I know of (except 1, for which an patch exits on sf.net) are
>> corrected in the latest svn.
>> I can run my 32-bit dpmi program and my 16-bit dpmi programs without
>> op code errors, both in full simulation and in jit mode.
>> My computer has an Intel processesor, but the bugs were on both
>> architectures.

ya, I heard of other people having this problem also, eventully these
fixes should get into svn.