Hi Frank,

On Thu, 2021-12-09 at 10:47 -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler via Elfutils-devel
wrote:
> > debuginfod.cxx:3472:12: runtime error: reference binding to
> > misaligned
> > address 0x00561ec9 for type '<unknown>', which requires 2 byte
> > alignment
> > [...]
> > But I don't understand why. It might be a bug in gcc/libasan (this
> > is
> > gcc 8.3.0 Debian 10.11 - Buster). [...]
> 
> It must be a bug in gcc/libasan or something.

Yeah, I'll try to see if an gcc upgrade on the machine will help (but
that has to wait a couple of days).

> > Also, do we really want to right align the log here? We don't seem
> > to
> > align the log text anywhere else.
> 
> This one just prettifies the messages because there is a sequence
> metrics & values being printed at startup, so it makes the numbers
> line up.  But no great loss to drop; we export those as prometheus
> metrics too.

I am not proud of needing this workaround, but I did push the attached.

Thanks,

Mark