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-rw-r--r--lib/ftp.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ftp.c b/lib/ftp.c
index 56449f6a4..0ac5d4d2b 100644
--- a/lib/ftp.c
+++ b/lib/ftp.c
@@ -861,13 +861,17 @@ ftp_pasv_verbose(struct connectdata *conn,
#ifdef HAVE_INET_NTOA_R
char ntoa_buf[64];
#endif
- char hostent_buf[9000];
+ /* The array size trick below is to make this a large chunk of memory
+ suitably 8-byte aligned on 64-bit platforms. This was thoughtfully
+ suggested by Philip Gladstone. */
+ long bigbuf[9000 / sizeof(long)];
#if defined(HAVE_INET_ADDR)
in_addr_t address;
# if defined(HAVE_GETHOSTBYADDR_R)
int h_errnop;
# endif
+ char *hostent_buf = (char *)bigbuf; /* get a char * to the buffer */
address = inet_addr(newhost);
# ifdef HAVE_GETHOSTBYADDR_R