On 17/02/11 18:20, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 18:12:25 +0000, [email protected] wrote: > >> >> I now have access to a Debian Sparc box, and I can reproduce the >> problem. The crash happens in the pthreads library, and I find it >> confusing that this should happen on Linux/Sparc, but no other >> platforms (that I'm aware of). Looking at the code, there's nothing >> immediately obvious, unless there is a bug packing unions into >> structs, causing a pointer alignment problem. Actually, that does >> seem to be the problem: the second union does not sit on a 64 bit >> aligned boundary. >> > Yes, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=613642#17
Ah, cool. Very strange: that stuff doesn't seem to have changed since 8.71. Anyway, if you want to raise a bug over at bugs.ghostscript.com with the results of your investigation and assign it to me (chris.liddell (at) artifex.com), I'll make sure it gets addressed in our repos. As I said, in the immediate term, disabling the threading is a low risk, (currently) low impact workaround for this. Cheers, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
