Hi there, I built and tested svn 1.8.0 today on Solaris 0 Sparc and got lots of test failures due to core dumps.
The first few dumps I inspected all showed a bus error in #0 0xfe660760 in cache_lookup (path=0x10fce06 "/A/D/H/pi3", revision=3, cache=0x17c1820) at subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/tree.c:357 The code is: for (i = 0; i + 4 <= path_len; i += 4) hash_value = hash_value * 0xd1f3da69 + *(const apr_uint32_t*)(path + i); >From similar problems with other software I expect this to be an alignment issue: the cast to apr_uint32_t* expects the pointer to point to an address divisible by four, but the string path can be located at any address in memory. In fact the cores show, that the address is not divisible by four. Sparc is especially picky about correct alignment, other platforms might have more relaxed rules. I guess you need to replace path by the next address divisible by 4 (and decrement path_len) accordingly) before running that loop. Regards, Rainer
