Re: ipfstat dumps core on sparc - unaligned read?

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <rmiiqmsneu2.fsf%fnord.ir.bbn.com@localhost>,
Greg Troxel  <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
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>I have a Sparc Classic (with very little memory) running netbsd-4.
>ifpstat with no arguments runs, and all combinations of ipfstat
>-[in]h?6? work except -inh, but only the v4 input ruleset is non-empty.
>So it seems something that prints per-rule hits has alignment issues.
>Is anyone else seeing this?  It seems to work on sparc64, interestingly
>enough.
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>#> gdb /usr/sbin/ipfstat 
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>This GDB was configured as "sparc--netbsdelf"...(no debugging symbols found)
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>(gdb) run -inh
>Starting program: /usr/sbin/ipfstat -inh
>(no debugging symbols found)
>(no debugging symbols found)
>(no debugging symbols found)
>(no debugging symbols found)
>(no debugging symbols found)
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>Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
>0x00012dcc in printlivelist ()
>(gdb) bt
>#0  0x00012dcc in printlivelist ()
>#1  0x00015178 in main ()

This kind of code probably does not help, try replacing with calloc().

                u_long array[1000];

                memset(array, 0xff, sizeof(array));
                fp = (frentry_t *)array;

christos