FreeTDS Development Group

[Peter Haworth <pmh AT edison.ioppublishing.com>]

Craig Spannring wrote:
> I'm suspecting alignment problems more and more.  I'm still in the
> process of getting Sparc-Solaris account somewhere.  In the meantime
> I'm going to go through the code and make it more longword alignment
> friendly.
> 
> BTW-  Could you tell me what the following little program does on a
> SPARC machine?  Compile it with the same compiler flags that get used
> with the DBD driver.
> 
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
>    char  buf[] = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
>    void *ptr   = (char*)buf + atoi(argv[1]);
>    long  i     = 0x30313233;
>    
>    *(long*)ptr = i;
> 
>    printf("%s\n", buf);
> }
> 
>         
> 
> Run it four times, the first time with a argument of 0, second time
> with an argument of 1, ...

sagan:/home/sagan/pmh/.cpan/build/DBD-FreeTDS-0.02 % ./a.out 0
0123efghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
sagan:/home/sagan/pmh/.cpan/build/DBD-FreeTDS-0.02 % ./a.out 1
Bus Error (core dumped)
sagan:/home/sagan/pmh/.cpan/build/DBD-FreeTDS-0.02 % ./a.out 2
Bus Error (core dumped)
sagan:/home/sagan/pmh/.cpan/build/DBD-FreeTDS-0.02 % ./a.out 3
Bus Error (core dumped)
sagan:/home/sagan/pmh/.cpan/build/DBD-FreeTDS-0.02 % ./a.out 4
abcd0123ijklmnopqrstuvwxyz


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