On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 21:59 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 09:27:32PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > 
> > I'm not sure what that code is doing there.  But it seems to be
> > looking at a 64 bit core file (x86_64, arm64, s390x) and then
> > create a 64 bit pointer is trying to dereference that.
> 
> That would be a pointer to a 64 bit object of course.  Sparc
> probably has stricter alignment requirements than the other
> arches.  I just wonder why it worked before.

Indeed. You seem to be right that we are trying to read possibly
unaligned data which would cause a bus error on sparc. There was even a
helpful FIXME in the code about it. Why we didn't see that before is a
mystery. But the attached patch should solve it. Could you test it?

Thanks,

Mark