Re: Bug#956324: Clustalo bus error on mipsel (Was: Bug#956324: python-biopython: FTBFS on mipsel)

Matthew Fernandez <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.mentors,gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips
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On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 at 08:09, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Matthew,
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 07:40:54AM -0700, Matthew Fernandez wrote:
> >
> > As a jumping off point, the attached patch fixes some issues with
> logging calls in the upstream 1.2.4 source release.
>
> Thanks for the patch which I applied to packaging Git.  I assume you
> want to express that while these fixes are definitely good coding
> practice the bus error problem is not fixed by it, right?


Thanks, Andreas. It may fix the bus error, but I don’t have a MIPS machine
to test on. Some of those logging calls had the potential to leave you with
a misaligned stack pointer. IIUC unaligned loads on MIPS could cause such a
bus error.
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