From 17a8bf212f26ba17d14a6e00048ab6f15b4baf89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 09:17:52 +0000 Subject: The buffer in ftp_pasv_verbose(), used for gethostbyaddr_r(), is now defined to become properly 8-byte aligned on 64-bit archs. Philip Gladstone reported. --- lib/ftp.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 -- cgit v1.2.3