bug#10518: Failing compile of guile-2.0.3.157-1bd9a on Solaris 9 Sparc

[Andy Wingo]

On Sun 15 Jan 2012 22:53, Dagobert Michelsen <address@hidden> writes:

> I am currently trying to compile the "call-for-testers" guile-2.0.3.157-1bd9a 
> on
> Solaris 9 Sparc with Sun Studio 12 and get a compilation error:

Thanks for giving it a try!  It's a bit embarassing that this didn't
work, but I did track down the issue today.

Some parts of Guile want byte arrays aligned on 8-byte boundaries.  We
use __attribute__((aligned(8))) on GCC to do that.  Probably your
compiler has something similar; it would be great if you could
contribute a patch to libguile/__scm.h to define SCM_ALIGNED there.

We do have a fallback that involves mallocing a buffer, and copying the
unaligned buffer into the malloc'd buffer.  That code was not working in
a couple of cases.  I think I have fixed it; at least, I tried it out
locally, and it worked for me.

Thanks for the report,

Andy
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