Re: missinglib: ftbfs [sparc] *** [test] Bus error

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@liafa.jussieu.fr>]

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On Mon, Jan  2, 2006 at 12:26:14 +0000, Jurij Smakov wrote:

> ldd is a double-word load, so the first argument (the memory location) 
> must be double-word aligned. I bet it's not (what's the value of %i1?) and 
> that's what causes the bus error.
> 
%i1 contains 0xa3f74, which is indeed not double-word aligned.
The ocaml float allocation function doesn't take care of alignment, so
we've reported this problem upstream.

Thanks a lot,
Julien