Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 26 Nov 1996 01:56:09 -0500 (EST) | From | Kenneth Albanowski <> | Subject | Re: "Exception at ..." with 2.1.9 and 2.1.10 kernels |
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On 24 Nov 1996, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > > 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 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.
As long as it was just a warning, not a crash, user programs wouldn't suffer to badly.
And let me add my vote for more stringent alignment. If I'm writing something that I want to be portable, I'd gladly make use of any available alignment strictures.
-- Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)
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