Bug 23351
| Summary: | ksh fails to execute (alignment problems) | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | James Bottomley <james.bottomley> |
| Component: | pdksh | Assignee: | Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | ia64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-01-05 12:39:52 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Thanks for the patch, will take a look at it soonish. Verified, applied and upstreamed - look for pdksh-5.2.14-10 |
When you execute ksh, it gives: ksh(26747): unaligned access to 0x600000000000d5e8, ip=0x20000000000a92d0 Bus error (core dumped) This can be fixed by making the default allocation alignment 16 bytes on the ia64 platform with the following patch: --- pdksh-5.2.14/alloc.c Tue May 18 10:45:09 1999 +++ pdksh-patch/alloc.c Mon Jul 31 14:10:43 2000 @@ -110,6 +110,11 @@ Block *block; struct {int _;} junk; /* alignment */ double djunk; /* alignment */ +#ifdef __ia64__ + /* IA64 requires 16 byte alignment for some objects, so make + * this the minimum allocation size */ + char ajunk[16]; +#endif }; struct Block {