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		spacechild1 on July 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Patching GCC to build Actually Portable Executable... Another common cause is trying to execute instructions that the CPU doesn't support, e.g. trying to run AVX2 code on a machine that only supports SSE4.

inglor_cz on July 13, 2023 [–]

Yeah, the only situation when I saw SIGILL "live" was my attempt to run some AES instructions on an emulator that didn't support them.

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