[lldb-dev] unaligned cast in TCPSocket::Connect

[Zachary Turner via lldb-dev]

I believe you are correct.  We should create an in_addr on the stack and
memcpy into it.

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 10:52 AM Ted Woodward via lldb-dev <
lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> TCPSocket::Connect has this line:
>
>             host_str = ::inet_ntoa (*(struct in_addr
> *)*host_entry->h_addr_list);
>
>
>
> host_entry->h_addr_list is a char**, while struct in_addr contains a
> uint32_t. Casting like this (char * to uint_32t *) could cause a bus error
> on systems that don’t allow non-aligned loads. I think we need to memcpy
> the data into a struct in_addr variable.
>
>
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on this?
>
>
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