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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: VM answer requested
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Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 19:13:40 -0700 (MST)
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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
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