From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Jorgen Austvik - Sun Norway <Jorgen(dot)Austvik(at)Sun(dot)COM> |
Cc: | Gorm(dot)Andersen(at)Sun(dot)COM, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Buildfarm member gypsy_moth seems not to like alignment patch |
Date: | 2008-02-29 17:49:50 |
Message-ID: | 9162.1204307390@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Jorgen Austvik - Sun Norway <Jorgen(dot)Austvik(at)Sun(dot)COM> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> This is unfortunate and surprising, since that patch was intended to
>> prevent compilers from making unsafe alignment assumptions, but it sure
>> looks like this compiler has instead added a new one. Could you poke
>> into it --- at least get a stack trace from the core dump?
> Running initdb with debug:
Hah, I guess the problem is that the compiler decided it was okay to put
the local variable "chunk_data" at an unaligned address. Patched, but
we'll have to see whether any other places have similar issues.
Thanks for doing the gdb-work.
regards, tom lane
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