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| author | Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@gmail.com> | 2009-01-09 16:47:07 (GMT) |
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| committer | Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@gmail.com> | 2009-01-09 16:47:07 (GMT) |
| commit | d89f5b20b2e00241eebd8ca592520c429d6f0d4c (patch) | |
| tree | 80a83cfb9b09ee68a91db223c4fbc2e170aa1291 /Modules/socketmodule.c | |
| parent | 343b970da9404be5cf6ef3544a11d9da014b4f42 (diff) | |
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Fix issue 4884, preventing a crash in the socket code when python is compiled
with llvm-gcc and run with a glibc <2.10.
Diffstat (limited to 'Modules/socketmodule.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | Modules/socketmodule.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/socketmodule.c b/Modules/socketmodule.c index deff28a..c1e3cfe 100644 --- a/Modules/socketmodule.c +++ b/Modules/socketmodule.c @@ -3334,7 +3334,11 @@ socket_gethostbyaddr(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) #ifdef HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R_3_ARG struct hostent_data data; #else - char buf[16384]; + /* glibcs up to 2.10 assume that the buf argument to + gethostbyaddr_r is 8-byte aligned, which at least llvm-gcc + does not ensure. The attribute below instructs the compiler + to maintain this alignment. */ + char buf[16384] Py_ALIGNED(8); int buf_len = (sizeof buf) - 1; int errnop; #endif |