Subject: Re: unaligned access in csh
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/29/1999 10:37:22
In article <XFMail.990128233605.root@garbled.net> root@garbled.net writes:
>Is this anything to be worried about?  (Ie, is there a bug in csh somewhere?)
>
>giauzar# more /var/run/sshd.pid
>160
>giauzar# kill -HUP 160
>pid 222 (csh): unaligned access: va=0x120186cba pc=0x120056514 ra=0x12000085c
>op=ldl
>giauzar#     

Yes, there is a bug in csh. Is there a way to make it core-dump on unaligned
access so we can find where the bug is?

It could have to do something with the builtin-malloc it uses. Try using
the system's malloc.

christos