SIGBUS using DBUS library on ARM

[Thiago Macieira]

Sjoerd Simons wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:05:05AM +0100, Frédéric DALLEAU wrote:
>> Thiago,
>>
>> The problem doesn't appear with optimization disabled.
>>
>> About arm, I just heard that a short must be accessed through a
>> 2-aligned address, an int through a 4-aligned and so on. Individual
>> bytes can be accessed at any address.
>> In our case, we are reading a short on a 2-aligned address and this
>> should work. So I guess the optimiser tried to put an integer read in
>> place...
>
>See http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Info/Alignment.
>
>You can request the arm's kernel to fixup unaligned accesses for you. If
> you want to debug it, you can also have it send a signal that you can
> catch with a debugger :)
>
>The default is to ignore unaligned accesses and do scary things though
> :(

The problem is that the address is aligned, so the loading of 2 bytes 
should have worked. Looks like it's a miscompilation by gcc.

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