Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0 beta 2 binary crashing with SIGILL?
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/15/1995 23:36:01
> The SunOS system doesn't recognize the core as being a valid core.  Not
> surprising, but then what exactly is a core file produced from a SunOS
> binary under NetBSD?  NetBSD doesn't recognize it as one, either.

The core file is incomplete as the kernel cannot dump the regions at
invalid virtual addresses (see previous message on netscape's slightly
naughty mmap() usage).

We must soup-up the VM system to do the right thing. I wonder if
other ports (alpha?) could bitten by this too.

-pk