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Subject: Re: osiSockDiscoverBroadcastAddresses(): pointer not word-aligned?
From: Eric Norum <[email protected]>
To: Ralph Lange <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Hill <[email protected]>, EPICS Core Talk <[email protected]>, Ralf Hartmann <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:20:51 -0500
That sounds like a pretty big bug in the newlib library or the underlying RTEMS memory allocator!
Or heap-space corruption.......

On Aug 22, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Ralph Lange wrote:

We're now at a point where we can see that the calloc() that creates the array returns an odd pointer.
Are we right that this is a faulty implementation of calloc()? (Which is supposed to "return a pointer aligned to suit any type of variable"?)


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