Bug 532044 - php fails to build on ARM because of an alignment error
Summary: php fails to build on ARM because of an alignment error
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: php
Version: 12
Hardware: arm9
OS: Linux
low
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Assignee: Joe Orton
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: ARMTracker
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Reported: 2009-10-30 12:49 UTC by Kedar Sovani
Modified: 2010-12-04 03:36 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-12-04 03:36:02 UTC
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proposed fix (481 bytes, patch)
2009-10-30 12:52 UTC, Kedar Sovani
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Description Kedar Sovani 2009-10-30 12:49:32 UTC
When the "php" binary is executed to create phar.php, an alignment error is encountered thus causing the build to fail.

Comment 1 Kedar Sovani 2009-10-30 12:52:10 UTC
Created attachment 366794 [details]
proposed fix

proposed fix

Comment 2 Joe Orton 2009-10-30 13:48:46 UTC
-	(z)->value = (v)->value; \
+	memcpy(&(z)->value, &(v)->value, sizeof((z)->value)); \

those are logically equivalent in C, surely?  Where's the alignment issue occurring with the use of this macro?

Comment 3 Jitesh Shah 2009-10-30 15:51:08 UTC
If (z)->value or (v)->value is improperly aligned, the first statement will fault. But, memcpy falls back to a byte-by-byte copy, thus, eliminating any unaligned accesses.

Comment 4 Kedar Sovani 2009-10-30 16:07:46 UTC
http://lecs.cs.ucla.edu/wiki/index.php/XScale_alignment
http://netwinder.osuosl.org/users/b/brianbr/public_html/alignment.html#q3

ARM expects pointers/words are aligned on word boundary. The pointer values that are passed to this assignment are now aligned on such a boundary, thus causing the problems. 

Here is the failed log:
http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=75564

Here is the successful build after applying this patch:
http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=75686

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 14:41:04 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

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