Re: Another patch (warning)

[Paul Eggert]

On 06/20/2018 12:34 PM, Bruce Korb wrote:
> random_r.c:289:13: warning: cast from 'char *' to 'int32_t *' (aka 
> 'int *') increases required alignment from 1 to 4

Thanks for reporting the warning. As Eric mentioned, this is a bug in 
random_r.c that can cause crashes. I reproduced one such crash and 
installed the attached patches. The first two merely merge changes from 
glibc and cleanup, the last one fixes the bug and adds a test case.

0001-random-random_r-merge-from-glibc.patch
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0002-random_r-omit-unnecessary-include.patch
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0003-random_r-do-not-crash-if-state-is-unaligned.patch
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