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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 0/1] Wrong structure alignment due to compiler attribute "section"
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 01:56:10AM +0100, Lino Sanfilippo wrote:
> On 06.03.2015 19:20, Lino Sanfilippo wrote:
> >
> >>>
> >>
> >> Ok, I got a link to the source now. It can be found here:
> >>
> >> http://tp-lab200/release/gcc/temp/internal/2010q4-113-4.4.5/marvell-gcc.src-2010q4-113.tar.bz2
> >>
> >
> >
> > Sigh. Just realized that the url is not accessible. Will check that on
> > monday.
> >
> > Lino
> >
>
> Hello Dave,
>
> sorry for my late reply. But I was a few days out of office and had to
> contact some people which are not in my departement. The outcome is:
> there is no public repository in which the source code of that special
> (buggy) toolchain is available any more. There are newer versions
> already, but even for those the source code is only accessible for
> customers (thats what I was told). However the responsible developer

(GPL?)

> could confirm that the wrong alignment I initially reported is indeed a
> bug in the toolchain which now is fixed in the newer versions.
> I really would have liked to send you the source, but unfortunately I
> cant. However thanks again for all your help.

Never mind -- hopefully this issue was caused by something that got
fixed upstream meanwhile, or that never went upstream in the first
place. Debugging legacy vendor toolchain forks isn't a very interesting
pursuit...

We can revisit the issue if it comes up again, but I've not heard
of any other instances of this type of issue so far.

Cheers
---Dave



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