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x/build: set up builders simulating old processors #17478

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bradfitz opened this issue Oct 17, 2016 · 2 comments
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x/build: set up builders simulating old processors #17478

bradfitz opened this issue Oct 17, 2016 · 2 comments
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We occasionally get a bug report from users that some assembly code (often in runtime or crypto or compression) causes a SIGILL.

We should run builders (perhaps in qemu?) simulating older processors so we can exercise all the assembly fallback paths and CPU detection code.
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As a starting build, @saljam made a qemu builder in the past:

https://github.com/golang/build/tree/master/env/linux-arm-qemu

Using it as a model, an x86-on-x86 builder would be interesting, masking away certain CPU features.

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This would also be helpful for a theoretical future RISC-V builder.

@bradfitz bradfitz changed the title x/build: setup builders simulating old processors x/build: set up builders simulating old processors Jan 28, 2020
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