[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#545925: Bug#545925: Bug#545925: firebird2.1: FTFBS on sh4

[Nobuhiro Iwamatsu]

Hi,

2009/9/10 Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org>:
> -=| Damyan Ivanov, Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:47:12AM +0300 |=-
>> The patch needs to go into upstream first, so that the
>> implementation IDs don't change later when they release sh4 support,
>> causing incompatibilities between databases created with Deiban
>> package/upstream and upstream/Debian engine.
>>
>> If you want to take this upstream yourself, you need to send
>> a bugreport using their bugtracker[1], attaching a patch to CVS
>> HEAD[2] (sending me the link so that I can track it would be nice). If
>> not, I'll deal with this somwehere in the future.
>>
>>     [1] http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/
>>     [2] http://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=cvs&group_id=9028
>
> I have prepared a patch to upstream CVS head. The only missing piece
> of information is the alignment rules of sh4. Are there such rules?
> For example, may a long long int pointer reside on odd address or not?
>
> On x86-based hardware unaligned access is ok, but on sparc it is not.
>
> I am attaching a program that I use to check various hardware details,
> like pointer size and such. It is compiled with simple "g++
> archtests.cpp -o archtests". If it runs fine on sh4, then unaligned
> access is OK. If you get bus error or similar, unaligned access is
> prohibited.
>

Thank you.
sh4 can not unaligned access is NG in float, double and long double.
Does sh4 need define RISC_ALIGNMENT?

Bes regards,
 Nobuhiro

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Nobuhiro Iwamatsu