On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 05:48:40PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 10:56:09AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
>> Sjoerd Simons wrote:
>>> Unfortunately I don't have an alpha lying around, so i can't reproduce
>>> this :). Afaik an unaligned trap doesn't do any harm, it's just a
>>> performance hit.
>>
>> That's pretty much my observation as well: no real harm being done that
>> I can tell, just the warning messages that aren't really flagged as such.
>
> Note that unaligned accesses are fatal on the buildds and on all sparc
> machines, so you really don't want to have unaligned accesses. Also note
> that alpha and ia64 machines can turn off unaligned traps, so that the
> kernel will kill off the process like it does on sparc. Unofficial Debian
> policy is that unaligned accesses are not allowed.
Do you still actually see unaligned traps with recent hal? We fixed some of
them some time ago. Also hal seems to work just fine on my SPARC, which suggest
these problems have been fixed.
I have no problem in looking for more, but i need some hints where to look :)
Sjoerd
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