On Sunday 29 February 2004 11:49 am, Steve Langasek wrote: > As of Linux 2.6, unaligned memory access is no longer handled > for you by the kernel on alpha. These will instead generate > SIGBUS errors, just as they have forever on Linux sparc. Any > such bugs should be fixed, therefore.
Yeeeouch...that's painful. Especially after I putzed around a bit, and discovered that "incompatible pointer type" warnings probably carry the same issue. :( -- Kelledin "If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does it still cost four figures to fix?"
