[cod] Server Crashing on Startup

Jared Bell jarbell at gmail.com
Wed Dec 12 12:44:30 EST 2007


Just curious, but why P3 instead of generic 686?

On Dec 12, 2007 6:51 AM, Ryan C. Gordon <icculus at icculus.org> wrote:

> > I've been having this problem since 1.0. Tried on 1.3 as well.
> > Illegal instruction (core dumped)
>
> You probably have either an old x86 processor (a K6 or Pentium II?), or
> some strange variant of an x86 processor (a Transmeta Crusoe?), or
> you're running the game on an emulator/vm that doesn't allow some modern
> x86 instruction.
>
> The server is compiled with -march=pentium3 -mtune=pentium4 (i.e. --
> optimize as if there's a pentium4 in the machine, but don't use opcodes
> that'll crash an Athlon MP), so there is probably some minor collateral
> damage for unusual configurations.
>
> And no, I will not be changing this in a future build, sorry.
>
> --ryan.
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