[osiris-devel] Osiris 2.4.4-stable released

[Richard Johnson]

At 17:17 -0800 on 2004-01-27, Alexei Roudnev wrote:
> 2.4.-xx works onSolaris (2.7, 2.8 and 2.9), on all  Sparc-5, Netra T1 and
> Enterprise systems without any problems. So, I suspect, in your case, one
> of:
> - wrong GCC defaults, or using wrong GCC version;
> - different versions of osirismd and osirisd.


No, same build, same gcc.


> It is a very bad idea - to change binary aligment just because one platform
> have minor problems. (next, we will have 128Bit platform, so we should
> change aligment again?)


When an alignment error prevents network communication between platforms,
or as in the case I noted, prevents network communication between binaries
on the same host, then it's a bug that does need to be fixed.  It is
already fixed in the 3.0 development branch, which I'm using successfully.


Richard