On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 18:01:11 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Felipe Sateler <[email protected]>, 2014-11-21, 14:04: > >Sparc is definitely not ok. For evidence, see #721617, liblo was trying to > >fetch a double from a 4-byte aligned address. Experience with liblo shows > >that other architectures are just fine (or at least are just slower) with > >this type of unalignment. > > IME, sprac buildds are the only ones where where unaligned access in a > build-time test suite triggers SIGBUS/SIGSEGV. > > Now that sparc is no long a release architecture, these kind of problems are > likely to go unnoticed. :-(
Generating SIGBUS should be configurable at least on ia64, hppa, powerpc and alpha. Most of those not available in Debian anymore. :( See PR_SET_UNALIGN in prctl(2). At least ia64 used to have a prctl(8) tool. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
