[erlang-questions] FW: SMP VM DUMPING CORE

Mikael Pettersson mikpe@REDACTED
Wed Dec 5 13:45:19 CET 2007


On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:33:55 +0000, Rickard Green wrote:
> Hi Rickard,
> 
> On 04/12/2007, Rickard Green <rickard.s.green@REDACTED> wrote:
> > The 64-bit compiled smp emulator on sparc erroneously used the 32-bit
> > implementation of atomic variables which caused it to crash. We didn't
> > notice this since we currently aren't running any automated tests on
> > 64-bit sparc.
> >
> > Unfortunately a fix for this issue will not make it into the R12B
> > release. I will however post a source patch for R12B fixing this issue
> > later.
> 
> Is this fault likely to affect R11B-5 smp emulator running on Solaris
> 10 on x86 hardware?

No. The issue is primarily related to the CPU architecture, not the OS.
Solaris/{x86,amd64} should be fine.



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