Bug#468327: [mp2] Perl 5.10 fixes from SVN cause SIGBUS on sparc

[Philippe M. Chiasson]

Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:53:54PM -0700, Philippe M. Chiasson wrote:
> 
>>>> Niko Tyni wrote:
>>>>> We're switching to Perl 5.10 in Debian soon, and I'm trying to update the
>>>>> mod_perl2 package to keep it working. Unfortunately the ModPerl-Registry
>>>>> test suite is failing on the Sparc architecture because apache2 is killed
>>>>> by a bus error (SIGBUS).
> 
>> How about this s/U16/U32/ diff, basically keeping the flag type at U32,
>> since it was not an essential part of the fix itself.
> 
> No, that doesn't help either.
> 
> It turns out the U16/U32 thing was a bad guess on my part. After
> some code staring and debugging, I found the real bug. It's not
> architecture-specific really, it just happens to bite worst on Sparc.

Thanks a lot for the debugging work!

Committed revision 636631.

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