On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:39:49PM +0100, Tomas Berndtsson wrote: > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ok, I've narrowed down the offending code to this 40k patch. Note, it > > has nothing to do with the zlib using code, since I already tried > > compiling --without-zlib, and it still gives a sigbus. If I take this > > patch and do a -R with it on a 1.8.0 tree, and compile, I get no sigbus. > > I've spent way too much time messing with this already, so I'm turning > > it over to someone (doogie?) else to work with. > > I couldn't find the error, but I found the exact place where it gets > the Bus error. In the file main/processarc.c, function > process_archive(), where it looks like this (the fprintf's are mine):
Adam and I already found the error. He modifed a union in nfmalloc.c (oddly enough called maxalign), that through it off kilter. I want to see if I can fix the problem, and still retain his change (it was part of a memory savings patch). Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
