Alignment issue on x86_64?

[Andrew Haley]

Rémi Cardona wrote:

> Andrew Haley a écrit :
>> True.  Either way, a test case will tell us.  Speculation is pointless;
>> let's see the code.
> 
> While trying to slim down my current code to a comprehensive test-case,
> I found out that my original bug can also be "fixed" by moving the
> "utils_atom_get_property" function inside the same source file as the
> one calling it.
> 
> I made a dozen git branches in my code to test various ways of building
> my code : static lib + program_LDFLAGS, static lib + program_LDADD,
> libtool helper lib + program_LDADD, one big executable. All of them fail
> identically.
> 
> Only moving the actual function code to the calling source file solves
> the bug.
> 
> So, would that make it a linker bug? 

Maybe.

> Are there ways to make sure that gcc is not part of the problem?

Yes.  Make me a self-contained reproducible test case and I'll tell you
where the problem is.

Andrew.