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Date:      Wed, 8 Sep 1999 14:39:21 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc:        emulation@freebsd.org, marcel@scc.nl
Subject:   Re: SIGBUS for threaded Linux binaries (glibc2.1) [PSL_AC related?]
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909081431160.12081-100000@alphplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9909072001390.27058-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>

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On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > Alignment checking is almost unusable on i386's since compilers don't
> > support it.  E.g., gcc generates a misaligned load and store for:
> 
> Uh? First of all, for sure there are compilers for ia32 that do alignment
> checking and (later) EGCS version resp. GCC 2.95.x certainly do some stack
> alignment.

"Some" != "enough for alignment checking to not find misaligned cases".

Bruce



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