> As this is a sparc64, with 8-byte alignment requirements, I’m guessing that’s > the issue. Many a piece of software has failed to respect that and crashed. > But, I’m not sure. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? I’ve built it locally (via ports), so if > there are compiler options I can/should try, I certainly can try. > > Thanks…
On what specific hardware you are running FreeBSD/sparc64? I have some old Sun desktops lying around with UltraSPARC-III and UltraSPARC-IIIi processors. Maybe I need to power them up again so that we can run some tests on big-endian machine ourself. Sami