We had an application which runs under Solaris8/Sparc.

We ported it to Solaris8/x86 to modify it.

We brought it back under Solaris8/Sparc and this resulted in a bus
error at runtime.

The problem is an access to a global variable (an unsigned short):
moving the declaration of that variable before other prevoius
variables makes it run.

Example:

=========== This causes the problem
... /* Misc declarations */
char a, b, c, d, e, f, g;
unsigned short w1, w2, w3, w4, w5;

void f()
{
  ...
  if (w2>0) { /* This results in bus error */
     ...
  }

=========== This solves the problem
... /* Misc declarations */
unsigned short w1, w2, w3, w4, w5;
char a, b, c, d, e, f, g;

void f()
{
  ...
  if (w2>0) { /* This now runs */
     ...
  }

===================================

I don't think it's normal. The alignment of global data should be
automatic, isn't it?
Moreover it runs good in the first application version.

Any idea? Tnx.

Indeed. Which compiler, which assembler, and which linkage editor was
used? Do you have the assembler text generated by that compiler (option
-S)? If yes, put it on some web page and post the URL. Do the same with
the output of `nm' for the object file.

Andreas.

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Which compiler are you using? Forte 6 Update 2 doesn't like
the function f() and the char f sharing the same name AT ALL!

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