Bug#537050: perl-base: unaligned access on alpha

[Niko Tyni]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 11:51:07AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Mon 08 Nov 2010, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > 
> > did you ever find out what caused this? Are you still seeing those messages?
> 
> At the time I downgraded to the 5.10.0-19 version that wasn't affected
> by this problem. 5.10.0-25 _is_ affected.
> 
> I'm not able to upgrade to the current testing, as that requires a new
> libc that requires a newer kernel and I haven't been able to get a newer
> kernel working on my alpha system :(
> 
> It may have been fixed in 5.10.1, but I don't think I can try that...
> I don't mind if you mark this bug unreproducible and close it after
> squeeze has been released.

It's not unreproducible. Now that I tried, I see the same messages with
the perl 5.10.1-16 test suite on albeniz.d.o when building with gcc-4.3
(4.3.5-4) but not with gcc-4.4 (4.4.5-6).

The default gcc version changed to gcc-4.3 right after the Lenny release,
and the first perl version built with it was 5.10.0-21. The switch to
gcc-4.4 happened in December 2009, and the first perl version built with
that was 5.10.1-9.

Therefore I expect your problem is fixed with 5.10.1-9. It's not clear at
all if this is a Perl bug or a GCC one. I'm not particularly interested
in digging deeper unless it manifests itself again with newer gcc versions.

Are you OK with closing this bug at 5.10.1-9?
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org