>Number:         7847
>Category:       c
>Synopsis:       pragma pack / attribute(packed): unaligned access to packed structure on SPARC
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          wrong-code
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 06 05:26:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jürgen Keil
>Release:        gcc-3.2
>Organization:
>Environment:
Solaris 8 SPARC (also seen on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0)

Problem observed at least with gcc3.2, gcc3.1 and gcc2.95.X:

Reading specs from /usr/local/gcc-3.2/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.2/specs
Configured with: ../gcc-3.2/configure --enable-languages=c,c++ --prefix=/usr/local/gcc-3.2
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2

Reading specs from /opt/sfw/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/2.95.3/specs
gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)

Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-linux/2.95.4/specs
gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)
>Description:
GCC generates wrong code to access packed structure members
on the SPARC architecture.

A 32-bit load instruction is used to read from an unaligned
address inside a packed structure.  This is not allowed on the
SPARC architecture and the process terminates with a SIGBUS 
signal.
>How-To-Repeat:
Compile and run the attached test case

% gcc -o open3 open3.c
% ./open3
Bus error (core dumped)

Expected result:  the program should run without getting
a SIGBUS signal.

The crash happens while evaluating the |if (...)|
expression in function dvd_read_sector.  A 32-bit load
instruction is used to access the |.address| member from an 
unaligned address.

( Note:  when the member |a| inside the structure
|dvd_priv_t| is deleted, the generated code is OK; the
unaligned / packed structure is read using four byte loads.
These four bytes are assembled using 'shift' and 'or'
operations into a 32-bit value. )
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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