qemu: uncaught target signal 4 (Illegal instruction) but gdb remote-debug exited normally

I'm getting Illegal instruction (core dumped) when running the attached a.out_err binary in qemu, but when using Gdb to remote-debug the program, it exited normally. will appreciate if you can help look into this qemu issue.

readelf -h a.out_err
ELF Header:
  Magic:   7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  Class:                             ELF32
  Data:                              2's complement, little endian
  Version:                           1 (current)
  OS/ABI:                            UNIX - System V
  ABI Version:                       0
  Type:                              EXEC (Executable file)
  Machine:                           ARM
  Version:                           0x1
  Entry point address:               0x8220
  Start of program headers:          52 (bytes into file)
  Start of section headers:          54228 (bytes into file)
  Flags:                             0x5000200, Version5 EABI, soft-float ABI
  Size of this header:               52 (bytes)
  Size of program headers:           32 (bytes)
  Number of program headers:         3
  Size of section headers:           40 (bytes)
  Number of section headers:         16
  Section header string table index: 15

qemu-arm version 4.0.0