On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 09:29:00PM +0100, Karl Sjodahl - dunceor wrote:
> On Nov 22, 2007 9:03 PM, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:09:41PM +0100, Karl Sjodahl - dunceor wrote:
> >
> > > Hello.
> > >
> > > I'm having problems with the silc port.
> > >
> > > If I run silc I get this
> > >
> > > $ silc
> > > Running SILC for the first time
> > > Private key passphrase:
> > > Retype private key passphrase: Floating point exception (core dumped)
> > > $
> > >
> > > This is on amd-64, OpenBSD 4.2-current (as of yesterday).
> > >
> > > I also downloaded silc-client from silcnet.org and build 1.1.3 from
> > > source and it's the same problem.
> > >
> > > Anybody seen this problem and know how to solve it?
> > >
> > > Please cc me, I'm not member of ports.
> > >
> > > BR
> > > dunceor
> >
> > My guess is this is caused by using the 128 bits arithmetic types in
> > w-silc-client-1.1.2/silc-client-1.1.2/lib/silcmath/tma.h:
> >
> > typedef unsigned long tma_mp_word __attribute__ ((mode(TI)));
> >
> > -Otto
> >
> >
>
> Hello.
> It look like that is indeed the reason for the problem.
> Any suggestion how to fix it? I haven't had time to look at it more
> closely so I don't know what it takes to fix it.
> It this releated to AMD64, can't it handle those 128bit stuff?
> Is it anything that has come in on AMD64 that is related to this or
> why hasn't it showed up before (I ran like 1.0.1 before I upgraded to
> 4.2-current without problem).
The 128 bits arithmetic _should_ work, I'll have to investate further.
There is a (slight) possibility that rev 1.13 of
sys/arch/amd64/amd64/fpu.c has something to do with it.
You could try reverting and see what happens.
-Otto
