From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 31 12:37:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61ECF14E06 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 12:37:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA19669; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 21:38:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 21:38:43 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Talbot NEIL Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unaligned access In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990326092415.00926980@130.102.41.66> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Talbot NEIL wrote: > > does this mean anything to anyone ???? > > pid 30947 (newaliases): unaligned access: va=0x16054d4b9 pc=0x12002498c > ra=0x12002493c op=ldl Its probable harmless. It means that the program attempted to read from an unaligned address and the kernel was forced to emulate the instruction. The program will get the right data, it just takes a bit longer... -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message