Re: bus error in ps2pdf
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 18:12:25 +0000, cjl@spamcop.net wrote:
>
> I now have access to a Debian Sparc box, and I can reproduce the
> problem. The crash happens in the pthreads library, and I find it
> confusing that this should happen on Linux/Sparc, but no other
> platforms (that I'm aware of). Looking at the code, there's nothing
> immediately obvious, unless there is a bug packing unions into
> structs, causing a pointer alignment problem. Actually, that does
> seem to be the problem: the second union does not sit on a 64 bit
> aligned boundary.
>
Yes, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=613642#17
Cheers,
Julien
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