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

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:14:56AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> 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.

Wouldn't it be simpler to make PKIX_PL_Object 32 bytes ?

I do hope there is not more of these in the new PKIX code :-/

Mike