Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 6550] Bus Error on ia64-hp-hpux due to alignment in emem.h
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Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 13:05:43 -0800 (PST)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6550

--- Comment #2 from The Written Word <bugs-wireshark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2011-11-08 13:05:43 PST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> It seems that the point of using G_MEM_ALIGN is to ensure proper and most
> efficient alignment on the current platform.  I don't see a "Built using..."
> line in your -v output to see: are you compiling with gcc?

We're building with HP's compiler.

> http://download.intel.com/design/Itanium2/manuals/25111003.pdf.  In the spirit
> of the G_MEM_ALIGN macro, we should probably only perform this change when
> necessary (compiling on ia64).

Limiting it to when __ia64 or __ia64__ are defined is probably fine.

I just tried to get it to crash again, having removed the patch, to supply you
with more info and a real stacktrace, but did not have any luck.

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