Re: Bus error due to v9 VIS on v8 ?

vom513 <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Aug 15, 2024, at 2:14 PM, Martin Husemann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 01:02:36PM -0400, vom513 wrote:
>> So are you saying it?s possibly not actually crashing at that point and I should continue until I get something else / final crash ?
> 
> Yes, exactly. When it stopy due to SIGILL check the call stack and just
> "continue" at the gdb prompt if it is in a probe function. There will probably
> a few instances of that very early, from a shared library that does
> crypto stuff.
> 
> Repeat untill you get to the real crash.

Thanks Martin, this was the push I needed.  I had thought the sparcv9 VIS probe stuff was it (red herring).

For anyone that might see this in the future, ghostscript-agpl (10.x) seems to bus error on sparc due to color management engine alignment issues (lcms2):

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695979#c20

I would guess it does this on other (non-x86) ports too.

Someone was having similar issues a while back on HPUX.  Adding "-dUseFastColor=true” to gs args uses the older color management engine and bypasses this error.
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