Bug#783293: browsers crash with 'illegal instruction' on i586

Sune Vuorela sune at debian.org
Tue Apr 28 17:46:13 UTC 2015


tags 783293 +wontfix
thanks

On Saturday 25 April 2015 20:29:57 Bernhard Übelacker wrote:
> I tried as a workaround to build a libqtwebkit package with attached
> little modification (does disable JIT, like for other archs).
> With this the browser does not crash.
> 
> Again unfortunately this packages have not distinct files for i586 and
> i686 like e.g. libav.
> Therefore would such a change affect every x86 user of this package.
> So this is also just a workaround.

I agree that just disabling the JITter is not an option. If someone improves 
the jitter, or making jitting optional for these architectures, we can look 
into it again. Until a patch shows up that does that, I'm going to mark this 
wontfix from the qt side of things.

/Sune
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