[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#362192: bus error in autogsdoc on some architectures

[Hubert Chan]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:33:07 -0700 (PDT), Jurij Smakov said:

> Hi, On sparc this clearly looks like an alignment problem. The
> decode() function mentioned in the backtrace above is supposed to do
> the right thing depending on whether alignment on word boundary for
> ints is required. The need for such alignment is tested during
> 'configure' run and is recorded in NEED_WORD_ALIGNMENT variable in
> Source/config.h (and other places probably). The problem is that on
> sparc this test is not triggered as it should, so the
> NEED_WORD_ALIGNMENT is set to zero. [...snip...]

Hi Jurij,

Wow, thanks for all your work.

Can you try using the attached file as config/config.align.c?  I've just
added a call to "puts" to force the compiler to not optimize out the
assignments.  (Fortunately, the compiler isn't smart enough to know that
the assignments are still useless.)

Thanks again.

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