Compiled examples from DDEr4 gives error on DC - Slot illegal instruction exception e

[mpldc]

Hi,

I have installed the DDEr4 (It did give me a MD5 failure on a file called "binutils-20060817-1.tar.bz2", so I burned a new CD but got the same error again) and have compiled a few of the included examples, however when I try to transfer the elf files to my Dreamcast using dc-tool (serial) my DC gives me an error message on a blue screen saying: "Slot illegal instruction exception expevt 000001a0..."

Now since I'm very new to all this I don't really know how to interpret the error, so if someone would be kind enough to point me in the right direction I would be very happy :)

[BlueCrab]

To me, this says that some part of the compiler toolchain was very broken, since you shouldn't ever be getting an error about a slot illegal instruction in compiled code. If you were working with something in assembler I could see it, but not something you just compiled that was written in C or C++.

I'd suspect that your binutils was indeed broken, and you probably need to redownload the entire ISO to fix it, unfortunately. Binutils contains a couple of vital pieces of the compiling setup (namely the assembler and linker), so if one of them is broken it could indeed be producing broken code.

[mpldc]

Thank you very much, I will try to download the DDEr4 image again. And just so I don't have to waste too many CD's (I only have 2 left now!), does anyone have an MD5 Hash from a working image?