kde-4.0.4 segfaults on netbsd sparc

Kishore kitts.mailinglists at gmail.com
Sun May 25 05:19:44 BST 2008


On Sunday 25 May 2008 8:17:37 am raymond.meyer at rambler.ru wrote:
> I can't start kde on netbsd sparc machine, because kdelibs contains sloppy
> code that causes segfault. It terminates with "Bus error" which indicates
> unaligned memory access. Below is the backtrace.
>
> The problem is with kdelibs-4.0.4/kdeui/icons/kpixmapcache.cpp. On line 159
> it has
>
> *mSize = *((quint32*)(mMemory + mSizeEntryOffset));
>
> So looks like a pointer to char is cast to a pointer to some form of
> uint32_t and then dereferenced. Can anyone suggest a proper fix?

Raymond, you would get better help on the developers mailing list as this one 
is more for users. You could also try IRC.
-- 
Cheers!
Kishore
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