Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 7221] wireshark crashes with bus error on Sun Sparc platfo
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Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 14:54:16 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7221

--- Comment #10 from Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> 2012-05-03 14:54:16 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> (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?

Well, could be since a partial fix/workaround was checked in with this one. 
Give me a while, though... I hope I can get a complete fix.

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