Ubuntu
firefox package

  1. Bug #1322784
  2. Comment #54

Comment 54 for bug 1322784

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In , L. David Baron (dbaron) wrote :

Comment on attachment 8561105
Pad heap allocations passed to flag_qsort() on x86 Linux to work around gcc bug affecting Ubuntu packages

Approval Request Comment
[Feature/regressing bug #]: not a regression in our codebase
[User impact if declined]: #3 topcrash on Linux, specific to 32-bit Ubuntu-distributed builds. Firefox will randomly crash on 32-bit Linux builds the first time the user uses a textarea or otherwise does something that initializes the spellchecker. (It only crashes a small percentage of the time, but it affects a large number of users.)
[Describe test coverage new/current, TreeHerder]: None. Just landed on mozilla-inbound. I don't know of any way to test that the fix works without shipping it on the release channel.
[Risks and why]: Low risk; it's padding a few allocations in the spellcheck code with 2 extra bytes on all 32-bit Linux builds.
[String/UUID change made/needed]: no