Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If I'm not mistaken, "unaligned trap" means someone is doing something
> like:
>
> void foo(char *x)
> {
> int *c = (int *)x;
>
> ...
> }
>
> and the char* passed in is not necessarily 32-bit-aligned. Some CPUs
> (like the Alpha) care deeply about this sort of thing, others (like the
> Intel) don't really, except for some loss of efficiency.
>
> Is that correct? Can someone definitively support or refute my
> understanding here?
Well, sometimes it is more subtle than that (in particular see the bug
report I submitted against ghostcript), but essentially, yes.
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