Commit 17a8bf21 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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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.
parent 4fc76afe

lib/ftp.c

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@@ -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