current cvs segfault on Debian hppa

[Matthias Andree]

On Thu, 03 Oct 2002, Eric Seppanen wrote:

> Someone back me up on this: if hmalloc() is returning odd addresses and 
> we're laying down structures at that address, we're broken on many 
> architectures, right?

It will break or slow down m68k, break MIPS, and apparently it breaks
HP-PA. However, how do we figure if the machine in question needs 16, 32
or 64-bit aligned addresses? How will this scale on really big boxes?
Might there be machines that need 128 bit alignment?

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Matthias Andree

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