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Re: Bug#286038: Mozilla Firefox broken on HPPA



On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 12:13:46AM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote:
> > A load or store from or to an unaligned address.  eg a load-word from
> > an address that's not congruent to 0 mod 4.  these are emulated, so the
> > message is purely informative (because they're slow).
> 
> And is that generally indicative of bad behavior, compiler problem,
> etc? 

Not the compiler.
Normally either bad programming (e.g. casts to larger types) or
inline asm can cause this to happen.

grant



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