PGP 5.0i compiled with egcs-1.0.2/Solaris 2.6-sparc gives bus error

PGP 5.0i compiled with egcs-1.0.2/Solaris 2.6-sparc gives bus error

[Yusuf Goolamabbas]

When generating a key via pgpk -g. I get a bus error.

According to the PGP bugs page

http://www.pgpi.com/bugs/bugs50i.shtml

Bus error on Solaris 2.5.1
Kris Van Hees <aedil@ny.fnx.com> wrote:

Hi,
    Compiling PGP 5.0i sources on a Solaris 2.5.1 (Sparc20) box with
GCC 2.7.1 succeeded but the resulting code aborts with a Bus Error when
running key generation (pgpk -g).  I traced down the problem to the struct
MD5Context, which contains a conditional for HAVE64, which is set along
with typedefs in include/pgpUsuals.h.  I am not certain why, but using
that auto-resolving finds a 64bit type as 'unsigned long long', and thus
sets HAVE64.  Yet when used in code this fails.  I think this might be
a problem with GCC/Solaris interaction.  A Bus Error sounds to me as a
possible alignment problem there.

        I manually disabled the HAVE64 check, so that the code will use
two 32bit words, and that solved the problem.

Can somebody comment upon this ?

I am on a solaris-sparc-2.6 system with gcc
gcc version egcs-2.90.27 980315 (egcs-1.0.2 release)

Cheers, Yusuf
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Re: PGP 5.0i compiled with egcs-1.0.2/Solaris 2.6-sparc gives bus error

[Todd Vierling]

On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:

: MD5Context, which contains a conditional for HAVE64, which is set along
: with typedefs in include/pgpUsuals.h.  I am not certain why, but using

:         I manually disabled the HAVE64 check, so that the code will use
: two 32bit words, and that solved the problem.
: 
: Can somebody comment upon this ?

On Sun SPARCstations, 8-byte integers (`unsigned long long') ust be aligned
on an 8-byte boundary, and it is not used as such in this code.

Adding an "unsigned long pad" before the affected variable should fix it.

-- 
-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)

Re: PGP 5.0i compiled with egcs-1.0.2/Solaris 2.6-sparc gives bus error

[Geoffrey KEATING]

> http://www.pgpi.com/bugs/bugs50i.shtml

> Bus error on Solaris 2.5.1

This is caused by a bug in pgp; they use a custom malloc, but don't
align the memory to an 8-byte boundary.  I sent in a patch.

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Geoff Keating <Geoff.Keating@anu.edu.au>