And of course I forgot the patch last time...

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Aaron Turner <synfina...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Joseph,
>
> Just for giggles I did this patch which should fix the bus error you
> reported.  I'm pretty much expecting that there are a dozen or two
> more of these bugs in the code on an 8 byte aligned system.  Of
> course, maybe I'm wrong- wouldn't that be nice!
>
> Anyways let me know if this fixes that problem.  If you find others,
> please update ticket #364
> (http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/trac/ticket/364) with their locations
> (file & line number like you gave me last time would be great)... if
> you know how to use gdb, it should be pretty straight forward.
>
> Honestly, fixing each alignment bug usually takes about 5 minutes, but
> reading the code, line by line, looking for these issues is a lot more
> time consuming.  Basically, I'll try to fix any alignment bug you can
> find.   Of course if you can get me a login onto your box, well that
> would be a huge help.  Otherwise, left to my own devices to track down
> these bugs is going to take months and months.
>
> Regards,
> Aaron
>
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Aaron Turner <synfina...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Joseph Karwisch
>> <jkarwisc...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>> Aaron,
>>>
>>>        I get a Bus Error on trying offset 3.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> --Joseph
>>
>> That would make this a big problem then.  Right now I'm concentrating
>> on work related to the GUI and then I'll be looking at a native
>> Windows port.  Both of those to me seem more important then this bug
>> (a lot more people would find those features useful).  That and of
>> course since I don't have access to an 8 byte strictly aligned system
>> makes tracking down all these errors pretty painful on my end.
>>
>> Basically what I'm saying is it will be at least 6+ months before I
>> even start looking at this.  Your best bet is to either find a Linux,
>> *BSD or 32bit Solaris box or find someone else to fix this bug.
>> Obviously, I'll be more then happy to accept any patches so that
>> future versions will be 8 byte aligned compatible.
>>
>> --
>> Aaron Turner
>> http://synfin.net/
>> http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/ - Pcap editing and replay tools for Unix & 
>> Windows
>> They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
>> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.  -- Benjamin Franklin
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Aaron Turner
> http://synfin.net/
> http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/ - Pcap editing and replay tools for Unix & 
> Windows
> They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.  -- Benjamin Franklin
>



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http://synfin.net/
http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/ - Pcap editing and replay tools for Unix & Windows
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.  -- Benjamin Franklin

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