libXi-1.3.2: SIGBUS in ParseClassInfo on sparc/64 bit

[walter harms]

Julien Cristau schrieb:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 13:23:01 +0200, Nicolai Stange wrote:
> 
>>  Hi everybody,
>>
>> I've got a SIGBUS on sparc/64 bit in ParseClassInfo here:
>> XListDev.c:126:  B->class = ButtonClass;
>>
>> the reason is that B->class is an XID which is unsigned long which
>> is 8byte here.
>> B points to an address not divisible by eight because there have
>> been some XAxisInfo's put before it in the *Any-Storage (in previous
>> iterations of the same loop).
>> sizeof(XAxisInfo)=3*sizeof(int) = 0x0C and thus, it breaks the
>> alignment at some point in *Any.
>>
>> A quick fix that works here is to replace
>> int resolution
>> by
>> long resolution
>> in struct _XAxisInfo, XInput.h:809
>>
> That would break ABI, though, so we can't do that...  I think we should
> make sure the length field of a XAnyClassInfo is a multiple of
> sizeof(XID).
> 

perhaps an __attribute__ ((aligned (8))) will help ?
can you test it with a small sample programm ?

re,
 wh