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Re: Buildfarm member gypsy_moth seems not to like alignment patch



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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