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SubjectRe: Bus Errors!

The Intel machines allow access of any sized object at any alignment.
They run faster if large objects are aligned on their natural boundaries.

For this reason, Intel machines can't produce bus errors from unnatural
alignments. Further, there are no bus signals (bits) that could possibly
be operated in the event of some hardware generated error related to the
bus.

Therefore "bus errors" on Intel machines can't exist. However, some
poorly-written code may use the SIGBUS signal in some improper way.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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