i386/61306: many binaries crash with "illegal instruction" message (ldexp)

[Bruce Evans]

The following reply was made to PR i386/61306; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde at zeta.org.au>
To: Alexander Krotov <ank at despammed.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, freebsd-i386 at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: i386/61306: many binaries crash with "illegal instruction"
 message (ldexp)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 01:58:25 +1100 (EST)

 On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Alexander Krotov wrote:
 
 > >Description:
 > I have installed 5.2 release yesterday and got a lot of problems
 > with different binaries crashing with "illegal instruction" message.
 > For example "build world" does not work because awk and troff
 > crash. fsck_ufs did crash.
 
 This is most likely caused by compiling ldexp.c for a pentium4 (not
 the default).
 
 Bruce