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Date:      Fri, 27 Nov 1998 09:54:32 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        "Sergey S. Kosyakov" <ks@itp.ac.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vi - unaligned access
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811270953300.21711-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981127105224.ks@itp.ac.ru>

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On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Sergey S. Kosyakov wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I installed 1125-SNAP on my AlphaPC 164LX, and some processes,
> e.g. "vi rc.conf", fails with "unaligned access" message. Can anybody help me
> to fix that?
> 
> EB164
> Pyxis, pass1
> AlphaPC 164LX 533MHz
> NCR 53c810
> DEC 21041 Ethernet

How does the process fail?  For user processes, unaligned accesses are
handled (slowly) by the kernel.  The program should still work.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 951 1891
					Fax:   +44 181 381 1039


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