[Mono-dev] NRE when using pointers on armhf

[Zoltan Varga]

Hi,

 arm might require aligned reads, i.e. 'p' should be 4 byte aligned in this
case.

          Zoltan

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Slide <slide.o.mix at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to compile and use the ZeroC Ice remoting library for armhf to
> run on my RaPi 2. The compilation goes fine, but when running the test
> suite I am getting a NullReferenceException on the pointer assignment in
> the following code:
>
> fixed(byte* p = &_bytes[_position])
> {
>     *((float*)p) = _valBytes.floatVal; // exception here
> }
>
> This same code works on x86_64, so I am assuming there is something that
> is missing in the armhf implementation.
>
> Is there something I can do to debug what might be missing and provide a
> patch? I've never done work on the mono runtime itself.
>
> Thanks,
>
> slide
>
>
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