[ale] SIGILL ??

[Peter Ekstrom]

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 ncb at cc.gatech.edu (Neil Bright) wrote:
> 
> Peter Ekstrom wrote the following:
>  
> > Can someone explain to me what it means when an application exits
> > because of a SIGILL (signal 4)?
> 
> >From /usr/include/signum.h, SIGILL is defined as an "Illegal instruction"
> - in English, your processor tried to execute some code that it didn't
> understand.
>  
> > I am trying to get VMware to run, but it keeps exiting because it
> > catches the above signal.
> 
> I do know that VMware does not function on CPUs that don't support the
> tsc instruction.  (Like my 166Mhz Cyrix 6x86...  *grrrr*)  From the
> VMware FAQ (http://www.vmware.com/products/productfaq.html):
> 
> 	Does VMware run only on Intel processors or can it also run on
> 	Intel compatible processors?
> 
> 		VMware runs on any Intel Pentium family processor
> 		including, Pentium, Pentium with MMX, Pentium-Pro,
> 		Pentium II, Pentium Xeon or Pentium III and compatible
> 		processors including the AMD K-6 and Cyrix MII.
> 
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>  Neil Bright              ncb at cc.gatech.edu            IHPCL administrator
>  (404) 385-0448                                       College of Computing
>  http://www.cc.gatech.edu/projects/ihpcl   Georgia Institute of Technology
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Hmm, that's what I was afraid of.  My box runs on a Cyrix 6x86 @ 200MHz and I remember having the sig 11
problem with gcc a while back.

Well, thanks for confirming this problem for me!

//Peter