From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Oct 12 1: 9:52 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 58C02157A6 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 01:09:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA48648; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:11:46 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:11:46 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Javier Henderson Cc: Rick McGee , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unaligned Access In-Reply-To: <14338.10352.307634.773264@bogon.kjsl.com> 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 Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Javier Henderson wrote: > Rick McGee writes: > > Thanks, > > > > It is rather annoying. > > Probably performance robbing too. Alignment errors get resolved > by the slower hardware exception handler, no? Thats right. The error message includes the address of the instruction which is doing the unaligned access if anyone would like to fix it.. -- 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