Auth SEGV on sparc64, alignment problem?

Sami Ketola sami.ketola at dovecot.fi
Thu Feb 22 20:01:24 EET 2018


> As this is a sparc64, with 8-byte alignment requirements, I’m guessing that’s the issue.  Many a piece of software has failed to respect that and crashed.  But, I’m not sure.
> 
>  Does anyone have any suggestions?  I’ve built it locally (via ports), so if there are compiler options I can/should try, I certainly can try.
> 
>  Thanks…

On what specific hardware you are running FreeBSD/sparc64? I have some old Sun desktops 
lying around with UltraSPARC-III and UltraSPARC-IIIi processors. Maybe I need to power them 
up again so that we can run some tests on big-endian machine ourself.

Sami



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