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<think>
Okay, so I'm looking at this bug report about QEMU regressions on an ARM target when running some GCC tests. The user provided a tarball with binaries and a script. They noticed that after updating to a recent QEMU master commit, several tests started causing QEMU to crash with signal 6 (Aborted).
First, I need to figure out whether this is related to user-mode or system-mode in QEMU. User-mode typically involves running applications directly under QEMU without an OS, while system-mode simulates a full system including hardware devices and an OS.
The tests were built with GCC targeting arm-none-linux-gnueabi, which suggests they're meant to run on a Linux environment but compiled for the ARM architecture. The user used --cpu cortex-a9, indicating a specific CPU setup. They also mentioned using "any" in the script, but it didn't make a difference.
The fact that the tests were working before and now cause QEMU to crash points towards a regression introduced in the recent QEMU changes. Since they're running GCC test binaries, these are likely user applications rather than system-level code or kernel stuff.
In user-mode, QEMU runs applications directly by translating their machine code without needing an entire OS simulation. If the tests were working before but now crash, it could be a bug in how QEMU handles certain ARM instructions or exceptions under user-mode.
On the other hand, if this were system-mode, we'd expect issues related to device emulation or higher privilege levels, like kernel operations. But since the tests are application-level and crash with an abort signal (like a segmentation fault), it seems more likely tied to how QEMU is executing the application code—probably user-mode.
So putting it all together, I think this bug report falls under 'user' mode.
</think>
The issue relates to running application binaries that cause QEMU to crash. Since these are user-space applications without an OS simulation, it's a user-mode problem.
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