[osiris-devel] Osiris 2.4.4-stable released

[Alexei_Roudnev]

It is not hardware issue; it is (more likely) compilation mode issue. For
Solaris, I strongly recommend to have binary version, built on Solaris 2.7 /
Ultra Sparc / 32 bits, which can work on ANY hardware and ANY software
(Solaris 2./7 - 2.9), and forget about this problem. You can not align
network data structure to theparticular hardware (what if next Sun will have
126bit mode - change structures again?).

Moreover, I am 100% sure that C compiler allows to use un-aligned structures
in 64 bit mode, just look for the compiler options.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Wotring" <brian at shmoo.com>
To: "Osiris Developers" <osiris-devel at lists.shmoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 5:07 AM
Subject: Re: [osiris-devel] Osiris 2.4.4-stable released


>
> You are correct, it would effect OpenBSD running on this hardware.
>
> On Jan 27, 2004, at 6:02 PM, Richard Johnson wrote:
>
> > At 06:23 -0700 on 2004-01-26, Brian Wotring wrote:
> >> - - this release changes the message header structure used
> >>    throughout the components of the Osiris sytem.  Thus,
> >>    this release is not compatible with previous releases.
> >>    The changes was necessary in order to fix an alignment
> >>    problem on Solaris.
> >
> >
> > While I understand this fix isn't actually in until the rel_3_dev
> > branch,
> > the alignment problem doesn't seem to affect just Solaris:
> >
> >  | $ uname -mpsv
> >  | OpenBSD GENERIC#4 sparc64 SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi @ 333 MHz, version 0
> > FPU
> >  | $ dmesg | grep '3.4-current'
> >  | OpenBSD 3.4-current (GENERIC) #4: Fri Jan 23 17:29:32 MST 2004
> >  | $ osiris
> >  | Osiris command line management utility - version 2.4.4-stable
> >  | authenticating to (localhost)
> >  |
> >  | User: admin
> >  | Password:
> >  |
> >  | [frozen here]
> >
> > The freeze noted in 2.4.4 does not occur in 3.0.1-current, so I
> > suspect the
> > alignment fix was the key for OpenBSD sparc64 support as well.
> >
> >
> > Richard
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