Peter Kutschera wrote: > > Hello! > Anyone out there who compiled nntpcached-1.0 on OSF1? > yes. OSF 3.2D, same problems ... :-( I think the mmalloc package is not coded for alphas (64bit addresses). If I got it right, somewhere along the code there are casts from pointers (64b) to ints (32b), some arithmetic to align it properly, and a cast back to pointer... I ran lint over the mmalloc source, and some of the warnings are: warning: conversion from long may lose accuracy warning: possible pointer alignment problem, op CAST I can send you the complete list if you want it... >From syslog I got the following errors: nntpcached[17680]: nntpcache.c:93:Illegal seek: SIGSEGV! nntpcached[17680]: nntpcache.c:451:Illegal seek: Memory currupt nntpcached[17680]: nntpcache.c:451:Bad file number: Memory currupt and: nntpcached-update[24215]: list.c:85:Error 0 occurred.: newsgroup->write_lock reset nntpcached-update[24215]: nntpcache.c:93:Invalid argument: SIGSEGV! nntpcached-update[24215]: nntpcache.c:451:Invalid argument: Memory currupt nntpcached-update[24215]: nntpcache.c:451:Invalid argument: Memory currupt clearly not a desirable behaviour... And it shows some problems with microsoft news reader... sometimes the article count keeps showing 0 in a newsgroup, even if there are lots of articles waiting to be read. Happily (or not) I'm it's only client for now... if there is any way I can help, please say, pac
