Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Re: Bus error on solaris 5.7 (ethereal 0.8.13)

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 13:34:21 -0800 (PST)
> I don't know about that.  I have compiled 0.8.14 on Solaris 8, with all
> current patches, using GCC 2.95.2 and everything else and still get the bus
> error and core dump.

There could be a dissector blithely assuming it can take a pointer into
the packet buffer, cast it to some data type that includes integral data
types longer than 1 byte, and dereference it; it can't, on
processors that brutally punish unaligned references.

Could you get a stack trace from GDB or DBX?