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Re: Request for help: unaligned trap



On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:43:59PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Hello all,

> Could somebody please take a look at
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=289187 
> ?

> The gist of the report is that the kernel is reporting unaligned trap
> problem with clamd.  Beyond getting the idea that this is probably a
> sizeof() problem or similar, I am not sure hw to proceed.

> It appears alpha specific, and I don't have any experience with alpha
> issues at all.

Usually not; usually such bugs are reproducible on sparc and ia64 as well,
and IIRC both of those architectures are easier to debug because the trap
is exposed to userspace (i.e., SIGBUS), making it much simpler to get a
backtrace.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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