[Lazarus] arm-linux crash(es)

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:21:18 +0100
Henry Vermaak <henry.vermaak at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 29 September 2011 18:09, Vincent Snijders <vincent.snijders at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2011/9/29 Henry Vermaak <henry.vermaak at gmail.com>:
> >> Hi Lazarus devs
> >>
> >> I'm getting a couple of crashes under arm-linux, which I think are mostly
> >> related to unaligned access.  There's a lot of code related to typinfo that
> >> does pointer arithmetic that will definitely break on ARM processors.  I
> >> think some of the code probably pre-dates some of the helper functions in
> >> typinfo, but the functions in typinfo are written with aligned access in
> >> mind.  I've fixed a particular crash as shown in the attached patch.  Is
> >> this acceptable?  If so, I can try and fix more of this code.
> >
> > See also:
> > http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=19109
> 
> Hmm, I'll take a look.  Is anyone planning to merge any of this?

I merged them into trunk.

Mattias