Valgrind 3.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux returns unhandled instruction

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Issue

  • Valgrind reports "vex amd64->IR: unhandled instruction bytes:"; Illegal Instruction.
    $ valgrind [your-program] [your-program-options]
    ...
    vex amd64->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0x67 0xE0 0xF7 0x89 0x45 0xE4
    ==9341== valgrind: Unrecognised instruction at address 0x40bfca.
    ...
    Illegal instruction
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • x86_64
  • Valgrind < 3.4.1

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