On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:25:28 +0200 Roland Mainz wrote: > I just found > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6277643 which > is about the current Solaris /usr/bin/ksh (a ksh88 derivate).
> The description says this: > -- snip -- > ksh fails to maintain 8-byte alignment in its "stak" allocator, but > allocates objects containing long long types from it. This can cause > crashes and > violates the ABI. > -- snip -- > I am not sure whether this applies to ksh93/libast or not... can anyone > who is familar with the libast memory allocator check that, please ? the ksh88 derivative must have extended the code to typedef number as 'long long' and failed to add 'long long' to the stak alignment union _u_ ksh93 and -last (v)malloc align to ALIGN_BOUND in the generated src/lib/libast/align.h which uses the alignment of a struct that contains the largest int and float types among others -- 16 on sgi, 8 on sparc, 4, on i386 -- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ --
