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Re: Bug#286038: Mozilla Firefox broken on HPPA



On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:55:27PM -0700, Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> wrote:
> 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.

Couldn't it happen with optimizer bugs ? (we compile with -O2 on hppa,
in case that would have an influence, could someone try a build with
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt ?)

Mike



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