Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 19:13:40 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: VM answer requested Message-ID: <199611020213.TAA28877@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199611012137.WAA23428@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 1, 96 10:37:39 pm
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> > I'd like to be able to turn on the bit so that I get a fault (and it > > kills the offending process) when an unaligned access occurs. > > Adding support for this should be fairly simple. I wonder why you > didn't simply implement it yourself and faced us with a comparision of > the results. :-) Because I'd like it to be in the main source tree instead of yet another thing I have to locally maintain. 8-(. > > I'd also like to get kernel faults if this happens in the kernel > > According to my 486 docs, this is impossible. The AC flag is only > honored in `ring 3' mode. P6? P7? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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