Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Go 386

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

>
> Compiling the go tool chain with sse2 under VMware yields broken
> tools, and building with GO386=387, consistently breaks the tests. On
> bare metal, all tests except net/http pass most of the time. When a
> test fails I get the following errors:

which tests does it break?  ?c compile -0. as 0 (which is incorrect),
and print(2)'s %g and %f print -0. as 0.  could this or other bits of
non-ieee conformance in the system be the real issue?

>  From the test:
> <test> <pid>: suicide: sys: trap: fault write addr=0xfffffffc pc=0x0001e6ea
> panic: runtime error: index out of range

i can't imagine how bad sse would lead to accessing address -4.

this looks like the problem rob fixed the other week.

- erik