[linuxdc-dev]Problem with porting SoX

[Adrian M. <ad...@mc...>]

I have been attempting to port SoX - a sound application (see 
http://sox.sourceforge.net).

After a bit of poking about I have got an application that runs, sortof, but 
when I try - for instance - ./sox imagination.wav -t ossdsp /dev/dsp - it 
reports (on the DC obviously) ---

<Walking through AICA device list>
<Attempting to lock chnnel 0>
./sox: Killing process "sox" due to unaligned access
<Walking through AICA device list>
Segmentation fault


[Messages enclosed <thus> are printk's from the driver - they indicated that 
the driver has not misbehaved (probably)]

To be honest I still don't know enough about Linux development to know what 
"unaligned access" is other than it sounds like a linker fix up problem. Is 
this the sort of problem that I should expect because of bugs in the tool 
chain, or it is because of some error I may have made?

All answers, guesses or otherwise, eagerly awaited - if anybody wants the app 
I can email it or post it on my web page - just let me know. (Without a 
/dev/dsp it is obviously gonna fail though!)


Adrian