On 2 Mag, 23:29, mabshoff <michael.absh...@mathematik.uni-dortmund.de>
wrote:
> On May 2, 2:04 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Alessandro Torre
>
> <SNIP>
>
> > > Is it possible that my processor is obsolete for this version of Sage?
>
> > Yes.
>
> > What is the output of
>
> >    cat /proc/cpuinfo
>
> I doubt this will be helpful. Having thought about this for a while my
> guess is that some of the instructions used in MPIR might cause this.
> When I wrote a script to detect "advanced" instructions I only
> concentrated on SSE instructions since back then it was the major (and
> only known) problem. If gdb is installed in the VMWare image we can
> start Sage under gdb, get a back trace (to figure out which library it
> is) and then disassemble around the current pc so that I can fix
> this :)
>
> So far no one has provided information to what is wrong, i.e. which
> instruction[s] in what library causes this, so I cannot even start to
> fix this.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael

"So far no one has provided information to what is wrong, i.e. which
instruction[s] in what library causes this, so I cannot even start to
fix this."

Can I help somehow?
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