Re: P-D x86_64: "trap invalid operand" kernel messages

[Robert Hancock]

Rodney Gordon II wrote:
> I can reproduce consistantly a kernel trap message when using
> the app "transcode".
>
> They all look similar to this:
> transcode[27576] trap invalid operand rip:2aaaae2c5990
> rsp:7fffff8e7548 error:0
>
> Is this kernel related, or a bug in the application?

The program seems to be executing an illegal instruction - likely either 
an application bug or it is compiled for the wrong CPU and using 
unsupported instructions.

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