Re: Memory alignment of pointers for sparc64

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>]

On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Bill Moseley wrote:

> 
> Here's where it's blowing up:
> 
>     struct dev_ino *p;
>     struct stat buf;
>     ...
>     // allocate a bit of memory from the pool.
>     p = (struct dev_ino *) Mem_ZoneAlloc(
>             sw->Index->entryZone,sizeof(struct dev_ino));
> 
>     p->dev = buf.st_dev;  // *poof!*  SIGBUS
> 
> SIGBUS when the address ends in 4 or C but OK when it ends in 0 or 8.

Hum, that seems a bit surprising, what does your 'struct dev_ino' look
like? 

Jason