Bug 5622

Summary:	xorg-server needs to build with -D__GLX_ALIGN64, otherwise libglx.so can generate Bus errors
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Ferris McCormick <fmccor>
Component:	Build/Modular	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	dberkholz, joshuabaergen
Version:	6.8.99.9
Hardware:	SPARC
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Ferris McCormick 2006-01-17 04:38:18 UTC

Sparc needs double precision items to be aligned mod64, so when building
libglx.so (and hw/dmx) in xorg-server, __GLX_ALIGN64 must be defined. 
Otherwise, depending on the compiler used to build xorg-server and other random
events, libglx.so might work or it might generate Bus errors (Signal 10) which
kill Xserver.  This is the same as hw/xfree86/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG, entry 417.

Comment 1 Ferris McCormick 2006-01-17 08:01:23 UTC

By popular demand, I am expanding this to ask about the status of other 64-bit
architectures, such as alpha, ia64, amd64, mips, ppc64.  They might run into the
same problem, but I am not in a position to test them.

Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz 2006-01-17 08:18:39 UTC

From the imake...

#if BuildGlxExt
...
#  if defined(SparcArchitecture)  \
   || defined (Sparc64Architecture) \
   || defined(ia64Architecture) \
   || defined(s390xArchitecture) \
   || defined(AMD64Architecture)
#    define GlxArchDefines -D__GLX_ALIGN64
#  elif defined(AlphaArchitecture)
/* On the Alpha we need to ensure floating point accuracy for 3D */
#    define GlxArchDefines -D__GLX_ALIGN64 -mieee
#  elif defined(DarwinArchitecture)
/* GLX contains lots of uninitialized globals, which can upset Darwin */
#    define GlxArchDefines -fno-common

Comment 3 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:30:01 UTC

Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.

Comment 4 Michel Dänzer 2008-07-07 04:11:51 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8392 ***

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