current cvs segfault on Debian hppa

[Mark M. Hoffman]

* Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> [2002-10-03 21:32:21 +0200]:
> 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?

This from the same person who thought in-order locking would be a
maintenance problem?? ;)  Please, no need to reinvent malloc here;
we just need to use it properly.  See my comments in bogofilter-dev.
I think Gyepi is already heading toward "the right way" (tm).

Regards,

-- 
Mark M. Hoffman
mhoffman at lightlink.com


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