Audacious crashes with "Illegal instruction" on startup

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Nov 17 15:16:13 UTC 2008


Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski (dominik at greysector.net) said: 
> > The most fascinating thing about this is that you seem to be the first
> > to notice that. Either noone cares enough to file a bug, or there are
> > fewer SSE2 incapable processors out there than I thought, or GCC did not
> > emit that instruction in earlier releases.
> 
> GCC shouldn't be emitting SSE2 if you pass -march=i386 -mtune=generic.
> If it does, it's a bug.

Looking briefly at the code, it's conditionally including asm based
on the configure check - it's not relying on the compiler to emit
it automatically.

Bill




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