In regard to: Re: Crash in Gimp 1.1.7 on Solaris 8., Ludovic Poitou said...:
>Tim Mooney wrote:
>
>> In regard to: Crash in Gimp 1.1.7 on Solaris 8., Ludovic Poitou said (at...:
>>
>> >signal BUS (invalid address alignment) in color_pixels at 0x177858
>> >color_pixels+0x110: ld [%l0], %i1
>>
>> You don't say what architecture you're running on, but Solaris 7 or later on
>> an Ultra would be a LP64 (i.e. 64 bit) OS, so an invalid address alignment
>> would be indicative of incorrect alignment of a pointer. I'm not certain,
>> but odds are good that pointers in Solaris 8 must be aligned on 8-byte
>> boundaries, as opposed to ints which could be aligned on 4-byte boundaries.
>>
>
>SunOS bondi 5.8 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
>UltraSPARC-IIi
>
>But I haven't compiled with the 64 bit flag on !
>
>A simple program like this :
>main(){
> printf("%d\n", sizeof(unsigned char *));
>}
>
>returns 4 !
Then my guess about what the problem is (for you, anyway) isn't correct.
It's still a problem for LP64 OSes, though.
Tim
--
Tim Mooney mooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Information Technology Services (701) 231-1076 (Voice)
Room 242-J1, IACC Building (701) 231-8541 (Fax)
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164
