Comment 31 for bug 417009

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Dave Martin (dave-martin-arm) wrote :

I just heard about a possibly relevant issue. Although I don't have any direct evidence that this is the cause, could this be related to the interaction between exception handling and the switch to VFP? :

> > Codesourcery found and fixed a couple of bugs in glibc's longjmp
> > implementation which could lead to a corrupt FPSCR on systems with
> > VFP or to crashes depending on the value of an uninitialized word in
> > the jumpbuf.

Since this is a recent issue it is likely not to be fixed in mainline yet— I will try to get patches and post links to patches when I have them available.