379909 – games-fps/prboom crashes on some x86 processors

Bug 379909 - games-fps/prboom crashes on some x86 processors

Summary: games-fps/prboom crashes on some x86 processors

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Games (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Games

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Reported:	2011-08-19 22:16 UTC by Nick White
Modified:	2011-08-20 14:59 UTC (History)
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Description Nick White 2011-08-19 22:16:28 UTC

prboom crashes after a few seconds for me. This is due to the optimisation to use assembly if on x86, which evidently doesn't work well for newer x86 cpus.

At present the prboom 2.5.0 ebuild contains the line:
$(use_enable x86 i386-asm)

The assembly optimisation can't be needed these days, so please replace this with the following, which makes it run reliably on my arch:
--disable-i386-asm

Thanks to bug 328069 which led me to this fix.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-08-20 14:59:23 UTC

fixed in portage.  thanks for the bug report.