strangest bug ever!



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Posted by: stak
Posted on: 2004-12-02 18:31:03

so i came across this really weird bug today.. haven't quite cracked it yet, but it has something to do with aligned memory access. i write to a variable and then read it - that works fine if the variable is aligned on a word boundary. however, if it's not, then the value written gets shifted so that it IS aligned, and then when i read it back, it reads the unaligned value, which is messed up. argh.

stupid arm processor.

Posted by kats at 2004-12-03 18:15:59
turns out the value was being written with the 16-bit halves reversed. still.. stupid arm processor.
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Posted by John at 2004-12-03 21:44:22
The 16-bit halves were reversed?

That's just wierd. If anything, I'd have expected that to be a big/little endian problem... but then all four bytes would be out of whack.

Oh well... I'll just add it to the knowledge base... *makes humanoid/computer beeping noises*
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Posted by kats at 2004-12-11 10:24:42
yeah, but the app specifically accounted for big/little endian problems since it has to run on like 50 platforms. anyway, problem's fixed.. just had to add some padding so that the value was aligned.

but still.. argh.
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