On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 07:38:16PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: > Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes: > > As of Linux 2.6, unaligned memory access is no longer handled for you by > > the kernel on alpha. These will instead generate SIGBUS errors, just as > > they have forever on Linux sparc. > Are you sure? This was not the case with 2.6.0-test3, and the code > still seems to be there in 2.6.3 (traps.c/do_entUnaUser). I'm not sure, as I've yet to run 2.6 on my alphas, but I have seen reports of SIGBUS on alpha under 2.6, which has definitely never happened before. (Maybe this behavior is now optional?) -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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