From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: schwab@suse.de, 30855-done@debbugs.gnu.org,
gentoo-bug@opensource.sf-tec.de
Subject: bug#30855: 25.3; temacs fails with bus error during garbage collection
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:42:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6364ffb-c6ee-449c-855e-2c2ba9625fe6@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23217.31465.724993.860537@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>
On 03/20/2018 02:19 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> Also, doesn't this bug affect other architectures too, and at least
> cause a performance penalty for unaligned access?
It might cause crashes on other (presumably less-common) architectures,
which is worrisome.
The performance penalty is not something we'd want to worry about in the
emacs-26 branch, since we don't want to assume that the compiler is
storing Lisp words on fast-aligned boundaries; this is why we're using
alignof instead of __alignof__. So the patch does not address the issue
of optimizing for compilers that use only fast-aligned Lisp words (and I
doubt whether it's worth worrying about, even in the master branch).
Although 32-bit sparc64 is rare compared to x86-64, I wouldn't consider
it to be "extremely rare" in an absolute sense (at least, not for the
next several years; ask me again after 2038 :-). Perhaps I'm biased by
the fact that one of our department's production servers is still
regularly used that way, but whatever. I backported the patch to the
emacs-26 branch and am closing Bug#30855.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-20 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-19 15:23 bug#30855: 25.3; temacs fails with bus error during garbage collection Ulrich Mueller
2018-03-19 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-20 14:00 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-03-20 14:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-20 15:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-03-20 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-20 16:58 ` Paul Eggert
2018-03-20 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-20 21:19 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-03-20 21:42 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2018-03-21 6:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
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