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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: P-D x86_64: "trap invalid operand" kernel messages
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 23:58:55 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43BA129F.3020302@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5qN44-8oA-13@gated-at.bofh.it>

Rodney Gordon II wrote:
> I can reproduce consistantly a kernel trap message when using
> the app "transcode".
> 
> They all look similar to this:
> transcode[27576] trap invalid operand rip:2aaaae2c5990
> rsp:7fffff8e7548 error:0
> 
> Is this kernel related, or a bug in the application?

The program seems to be executing an illegal instruction - likely either 
an application bug or it is compiled for the wrong CPU and using 
unsupported instructions.

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       reply	other threads:[~2006-01-03  5:59 UTC|newest]

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2006-01-03  5:58 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2006-01-03  5:28 P-D x86_64: "trap invalid operand" kernel messages Rodney Gordon II

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