Bug#509930: x-www-browser for ultra5 ultra60

[Julien Cristau]

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 07:47 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> I've spent some time looking at this, and I'm a bit worried about
> PKIX_PL_Object_Alloc.  Specifically, sizeof(PKIX_PL_Object) seems to be
> 28 on 32bit, and __alignof__(PKIX_PL_Object) is 4.  PKIX_PL_Object_Alloc
> goes to allocate some space for one PKIX_PL_Object + the size it was
> asked for, and then goes and returns object + 1.  Thus, if
> PKIX_PL_Malloc gives it a 8 byte aligned pointer, PKIX_PL_Object_Alloc
> will return an unaligned address to its caller.  PKIX_PL_OcspResponse's
> size is 56, and it has to be 8 byte aligned on sparc, so it's possible
> this is the problem here.

It'd be nice if someone could try the attached patch on sparc and see if
they can reproduce the browser crash.

Cheers,
Julien
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