On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 10:27:05AM +1000, Mark Purcell wrote: > This is a pain as we have turned on the check tests target in -2, and > it is only failing on sparc with a bus error, so I suspect it isn't > the code, but rather the stress of the tests. I have forwarded to > google to see if they have a view. No, it most likely is the code. On sparc, a bus error almost always means an unaligned memory access. Accessing an n-byte quantity must happen at a memory address that is a multiple of n. You may want to use a sparc porter machine to see where the fault occurs and fix it. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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