Re: [PATCH]: Fix SIGBUS in JPEG handling on RISC

[David Miller <davem davemloft net>]

From: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:16:38 -0400

> On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 15:50 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > Alternatively, we can say that GTK+ knows better and simply
> > block out such dumb platforms at the top-level configure :-)
> 
> Plus you don't want to trap.... it's going to be slow and might
> even fill up the user's logs. (This used to be a problem on Alpha Linux
> long a
> 
> Grep for '<< 8' in the gdkpixbuf sources and you'll find a small 
> fraction of the other places where we go through effort avoid unaligned
> access.

I'm glad that people agree with me. :)

Meanwhile, could someone please apply my patch so that this bug gets
fixed?

Thanks.