Re: pkg/55269: 'bjam' always 'bus error' on NetBSD/sparc (presumably, other strict-alignement 32 bits arch as well)

[Romain Dolbeau <romain%dolbeau.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/55269; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Romain Dolbeau <romain%dolbeau.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/55269: 'bjam' always 'bus error' on NetBSD/sparc (presumably,
 other strict-alignement 32 bits arch as well)
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 13:01:10 +0200

 Le lun. 18 mai 2020 =C3=A0 12:50, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> a =
 =C3=A9crit :
 >  Please report this upstream, it is plain broken code.
 
 It is, however it will work as long as alignment rules are respected,
 which is always the case except for data atom with an alignment
 requirement larger than the size of a pointer. The exception never
 happens 'for real' except 8-bytes data atom with 4-bytes pointer and
 strict alignment rules, so pretty much only 32-bits sparc and maybe
 some other 32-bits RISC architecture are affected... not a primary
 concern for Boost, I would guess.
 
 I'll fill a bug in GitHub and see what happens :-)
 
 Cordially,
 
 --=20
 Romain Dolbeau