[followup] SUMMARY: PGP 5.0i SIGBUS problems (sol 2.5.1) (fwd)

From: Alan Thew (Alan.Thew@liverpool.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jul 29 1998 - 09:55:16 CDT

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Some additional info about Solaris and 64 bit ints.

-- Alan Thew alan.thew@liverpool.ac.uk Computing Services,University of Liverpool Fax: +44 151 794-4442

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 15:39:23 +0200 From: Casper Dik <casper@holland.sun.com> To: Alan Thew <Alan.Thew@liverpool.ac.uk> Subject: Re: SUMMARY: PGP 5.0i SIGBUS problems (sol 2.5.1)

>From: Dieter Gobbers <gobbers@faw.uni-ulm.de> >I reasently compiled PGP 5.0i on a vary of unix machines, including Solaris 2.5. >The SIGBUS error is caused by the assumption of the configure script, that all >Solaris 2.x machines can handle 64 bit integers. There is a includefile, where >that is defined. I undefined "HAVE_64" an voila, it works now very reliable!

This statement is incorrect.

All Solaris machines can handle 64 bit integers; however, 64 bit integers must be aligned on 8 byte boundaries, PGP doesn't comply with that.

Casper

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