bus error and check fail on solaris 2.6

[Werner Koch]

Remi Guyomarch <rguyom at mail.dotcom.fr> writes:

> +     char __alignment[4]; /* align context[] on a 8-byte boundary */
>       char context[1];

Right.  I have to use either an union of some types, use a type which
fulfills all alignment requests or use memcpy to access the variable
in the contect :-)

> PS: Why can't we use a simple malloc() for variable-size buffers,
> contexts, etc ... malloc() will give us properly aligned pointers

Because we would then need 2 mallocs.  I think I broke this thing some 
time ago.  I'm going to fix this tomorrow.

Thanks,

  Werner

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