Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 7221] wireshark crashes with bus error on Sun Sparc platfo
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Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 07:26:00 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7221

--- Comment #9 from Chris Maynard <christopher.maynard@xxxxxxxxx> 2012-05-03 07:25:59 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> Well, I think we still have a generic problem here: this patch addresses one
> alignment problem by removing the alignment requirement, but we don't
> know/can't be sure there aren't other places with such alignment requirements.
> 
> IOW, I think our emem APIs should, like malloc(), return memory which is
> "suitably aligned for any kind of variable" (to quote the Linux malloc() man
> page).

Should that be opened as a separate bug then?

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