Created attachment 7268 [details] patch to give gp_semaphore maximal alignment Analysis by Julien Cristau. A quick test with the attached patch seems to work. See http://bugs.debian.org/613642 for details. Stéphane Glondu wrote: > ocaml-melt currently FTBFS on sparc [1] because of a bus error > provoked by ps2pdf. The bus error is easily reproduced by running > ps2pdf on the file available at [2]. This bug is not present with the > previous version, 8.71~dfsg2-10. > > [1] https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=ocaml-melt&arch=sparc&ver=1.3.0-2&stamp=1297644449&file=log&as=raw > [2] http://glondu.net/tmp/doc.ps > (gdb) bt #0 __pthread_cond_init (cond=0x28a8c, cond_attr=0x0) at pthread_cond_init.c:38 #1 0xf760d27c in __pthread_cond_init (cond=0x28a8c, cond_attr=0x0) at forward.c:117 #2 0xf78b1ce0 in gp_semaphore_open (sema=0x28a6c) at ./base/gp_psync.c:71 #3 0xf7a633c0 in gx_semaphore_alloc (memory=0x22870) at ./base/gxsync.c:59 #4 0xf786d23c in gsicc_cache_new (memory=0x224a8) at ./base/gsicc_cache.c:111 #5 0xf7a14dec in gs_imager_state_initialize (pis=0x3d4b8, mem=0x224a8) at ./base/gsistate.c:141 #6 0xf7a20c9c in gs_state_alloc (mem=0x224a8) at ./base/gsstate.c:234 #7 0xf780a0e4 in int_gstate_alloc (dmem=0xffd42050) at ./psi/zgstate.c:114 #8 0xf77d21bc in context_state_alloc (ppcst=0xffd41f3c, psystem_dict=0xffd41fe8, dmem=0xffd42050) at ./psi/icontext.c:131 #9 0xf77d9748 in gs_interp_init (pi_ctx_p=0x221e4, psystem_dict=0xffd41fe8, dmem=0xffd42050) at ./psi/interp.c:286 #10 0xf77d609c in obj_init (pi_ctx_p=0x221e4, idmem=0xffd42050) at ./psi/iinit.c:243 #11 0xf77ce42c in gs_main_init1 (minst=0x22190) at ./psi/imain.c:199 #12 0xf77cf784 in swproc (minst=0x22190, arg=<value optimized out>, pal=0xffd427a4) at ./psi/imainarg.c:571 #13 0xf77d0854 in gs_main_init_with_args (minst=0x22190, argc=18, argv=0xffd431d4) at ./psi/imainarg.c:200 #14 0x00010928 in main (argc=18, argv=0xffd431d4) at ./psi/dxmainc.c:84 cond needs to be 8-byte aligned, but isn't.
Fixed in r12178. The patch committed is just slightly changed to make use of Ghostscript's int64_t. You can see the commit message and exact patch here: http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-cvs/2011-February/012339.html Thanks for tracking this down, it's very much appreciated!