Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: "Exception at ..." with 2.1.9 and 2.1.10 kernels | Date | 24 Nov 1996 20:28:28 GMT |
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Followup to: <199611211136.MAA25464@turtle.stack.nl> By author: Bas Mevissen <sgm@stack.nl> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > > Btw, wouldn't it be a nice thing for us RISC people if on Intel > > > the kernel would enable the 486+ alignment exceptions and throw > > > warnings ;-) > > > > I like it! Now where'd my Intel databook go... > > And where would the people with their 386's go ? >
I suspect the point is to use it as a debugging device to find unaligned accesses in the kernel (that aren't portable to RISC architectures). Don't enable it in user space, though -- legitimate programs will break.
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